Inspiration
FROM THE FAMOUS (AND NOT SO FAMOUS)

Freedom has always been an expensive thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

We can't all be heroes, somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Henry Drummond

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I've been trusted with the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life. So that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

I am thankful for the adversities which have crossed my path and taught me tolerance, perseverance, self-control and some other virtues I might never have known.
Anonymous

"Your thoughts create your reality...These are the thoughts that create success!"
Walt Goodridge

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
Ella Fitzgerald

Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracion

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley

We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
Jim Rohn

Self-assurance is two-thirds of success.
Proverb

Problems are the learning rungs on the ladder of life.
Holly Smith

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks

Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
Mary Frances Berry

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
Source Unknown

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it.
Mark Twain

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

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