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“But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest”
Leo Tolstoy

“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy

“There is no achievement without failure.”
John C. Maxwell

“If your thoughts are as tall as the height of your ceiling, you can’t fly above your room.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.”
Leo Tolstoy

“In that moment, something stirred deep inside all of us, something strong and intimate, that bound us to one another. In that moment we felt the hand of the great past that made us what we were and the power of the great cause that linked us all together.”
Nelson Mandela

“Always living in the safe zone of life and never taking chances actually makes one a thief and a robber.”
Joyce Meyer

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too?”
C.S. Lewis

“We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.”
Albert Einstein

“There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...”
Frank Herbert

“Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment.”
Leo Tolstoy

“every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing”
Mother Teresa

“The biggest diease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody.”
Mother Teresa

“For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. Galatians 6:9”
Joyce Meyer

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