Wednesday Reflections

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

“Be always sure you’re right, then go ahead. Davy Crocket”

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad.”

“Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.”

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“Wisdom is knowing the right path to take…. Integrity is taking it.”

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty... The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.”

“Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

“Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man”

“Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly, to me it is the chief happiness of life.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”

“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”