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“Shield!” the old woman snapped. “You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.”
Frank Herbert

“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
Joyce Meyer

“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.”
Napoleon Hill

“Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope.”
Rick Warren

“Lead from the front — but don t leave your base behind.”
Nelson Mandela

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
Thomas Jefferson

“This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form)”
Albert Einstein

“Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it.”
John C. Maxwell

“God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.”
C.S. Lewis

“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than  any other.  ”
Brian Tracy

“The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”
Napoleon Hill

“The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man No longer a human being. It is a successful combination of both. That way it is a process of continuing growth. Be water, my friend.”
Bruce Lee

“Unity has never meant uniformity.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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