Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today.

Ray Bradbury –

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller –

When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.

L. M. Montgomery –

I prated for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Frederick Douglass –

Do something well, and that is quickly enough.

Baltasar Gracián –

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Malcolm Gladwell –

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass –

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison –

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie –

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Thomas Paine –