Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear
conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way
to usefulness and high achievement.
-- Grover Cleveland
It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I
pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man
that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
-- Benjamin Franklin
We are fallible. We certainly haven't attained perfection. But we
can strive for it, and the virtue is in the striving.
-- Carlos P. Romulo
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others
to be vicious.
-- Cicero
The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-- William Wordsworth
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
-- Henry Ford
Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the
Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.
-- Horace (65-8 BC), Roman poet
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
-- David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.
-- John Steinbeck
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is
going.
-- David Starr Jordan
The measure of a man is what happens when nothing works and you got
the guts to go on.
-- Tex Cobb, boxer and actor
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