Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... right conduct controls the greater one.
-- Mark Twain

Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- Chanakya

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

John Locke

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~John Locke

Lloyd Alexander

“Life's a forge -

Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll

be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and

you'll scarce know what's happening to

you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's

worthless till it is shaped and

tempered. More labor than luck. Face

the pounding, don't fear the proving;

and you'll stand well against any

hammer and anvil.”

― Lloyd Alexander

Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end, while perhaps if we allowed ourselves more idle time we would conserve our nervous strength and health to more than the value the work we could accomplish by emulating at all times the little busy bee.”

-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Maria Olson

“History is made one story at a time. What will your story be?”

--Maria Olson

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

--Dwight David Eisenhower

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in--that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”

― Frances Hodgson Burnett

J.R. Miller

The Problem of Life

There are so many possibilities in life, in attainment and achievement, and so many opportunities of doing good, that it is a glorious thing to live. Surely, then, we ought to make the most of our life.

The ideal life is one of joy. The face ought to be shining--shining even in darkness. People say this is a sad world, yes, for those who have eyes only for shadows. He who has songs in his heart hears songs wherever he goes.

-- Dr. J. R. Miller

Samul Smiles

Great results cannot be achieved at once, and we must be satisfied to advance as we walk -- step by step.

-- Samuel Smiles

Phillip Brooks

Be such a man, and live such a life,

That if every man were such as you,

And every life a life like yours,

This earth would be God’s paradise.

--Phillip Brooks

Franklin

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

--Franklin