A wise man would ignore the future and drink and carouse while he still has an opportunity to enjoy this world.

(Christopher Paolini)

Circumstances are beyond our human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

(Benjamin Disraeli)

Maybe we weren't meant for Paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our may through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute, we must march to the sound of drums.

(Star Trek)

‘Tis but a part we see, not a whole.

(Alexander Pope)

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent what you take it.

It is better to stand and fight. If you run, you'll only die tired.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

(Epicurus)

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable to put the other somewhat higher.

(Thomas Henry Huxley)

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

(Irving Berlin)

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

(John Steinbeck)

You don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things throughout the year.
(Susan Butcher)

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

(Madeleine L'Engle)

Be thankful for small mercies.

(James Joyce)

Action is the foundational key to all success.

(Parlo Picasso)

Give light and people will find the way.

(Ella Baker African)

To those that flee comes neither power nor glory.

(Homer)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

(George Bernard)

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

(J.R.R. Tolkien)

The great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

(Abigail Adams)

These men are all talk, what is needed is action! Action!

(John Brown))

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

(Oliver Cromwell)

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

(Ken Venturi)

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

(George Marshall)

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

(Amelia Barr)

It's not I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

(Albert Einstein)

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

(Napoleon Hill)

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

(Horace)

People think that when something goes 'wrong', it's their fault. If only they had done something differently. But sometimes things go wrong to teach you what is right.

(Alice Walker)

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

(Mignon Mclaughlin)

The people united will never be defeated!

(Frederic Rzewski)

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

(Kyle Chandler)

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.

(Marilyn Fergusson)

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

(Anais Nin)

May the odds be ever in your favor.

Things do not happen. 

Things are made to happen.

"I'll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear." Nina Simone

The tree that is cut down grows again; the moon wanes after a time waxes again. Thus do wise men reflect and, though distressed, are not overwhelmed.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.