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"To know a truth well, one must have fought it out."- Novalis (Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801) German Poet

"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme...

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. - Albert Camus

"Yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat."-...

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is...

"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard."- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) 26th...

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Joseph Roux

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or...

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we...

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. - Epicurus

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel

"Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life."- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919) Canadian...

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American essayist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

"Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just...

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Alexis Carrel

The good man is the friend of all living things. - Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."- William Hazlitt (1778 - 183 English Essayist

Our patience will achieve more than our force. - Edmund Burke

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight in the seas or oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island,...

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English Philosopher, Lawyer and Politician

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of...