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)