"One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
-Edith Wharton
"One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
-Edith Wharton
"To do nothing is the way to be nothing."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
-Henry David Thoreau
"If your world isn't right, the cause is in you."
-Dante Alighieri
"Stop comparing yourself to other people. You're only on this planet to be you⦠Your life journey is about learning to become more of who you are and fulfilling the highest, truest expression of yourself as a human being."
-Oprah Winfrey
"The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy."
-James K. Polk
"A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning... But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes."
-Zachary Taylor
"It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress."
-Millard Fillmore
"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion."
-Franklin Pierce
"The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
-James Buchanan
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
-Andrew Johnson
"The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized."
-Ulysses S. Grant
"Every expert was once a beginner."
-Rutherford B. Hayes
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
-James A. Garfield
"Where you stand depends on where you sit."
-Chester A. Arthur
"Above all, tell the truth."
-Grover Cleveland
"I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process."
-Benjamin Harrison
"In calm water every ship has a good captain."
-Grover Cleveland
"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest."
-William McKinley