Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains - Helen Gahagan Douglas
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success - Henry Ford
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come - Joan Baez
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated--he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting - Darrell Royal
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labour in season and out of season, under every discouragement ... that requires a heroism which is transcendent - Henry Ward Beecher
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her - David Brinkley
"Dissensus" is the encouragement of divergent rather than convergent - or consensus - approaches to crisis: indeed, some claim dissensus as nature's way of adapting, which has worked well historically.
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be" - Clementine Paddleford
Sean Freeborne, in his own words, made an "ass" of himself while alive, and will make "ash" of himself when cremated, but who, for now, remembers his mother - dead these 37 years - with much love still, and who survived cancer through optimism and who now walks and walks every day with great pleasure as he doesn't know how many days - how many hours - he has left.