Booker T. Washington

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne

Theodore H. White

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,

of most of the people you see every day,

is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

- Theodore H. White

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Buddha

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,

or who said it, no matter if I have said it,

unless it agrees with your own reason

and your own common sense.

- The Buddha

Thomas A. Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 

-Thomas A. Edison

Martha Washington

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.

Martha Washington

Wayne Dyer

"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason." 

Wayne Dyer

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

Joseph Addison

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

Helen Keller

When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.

- Helen Keller

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today I choose the higher road the path of charity, acceptance,
love, selflessness, kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

George Bernard Shaw

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." 

--George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.

Mark Twain

Winston Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Winston Churchill

Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

Mahatma Gandhi

Thich Nhat Hanh

From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Saint Francis De Sales

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

Saint Francis De Sales

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Albert Camus

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein

Robert Frost

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. 

Robert Frost

Ovid

If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid