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

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

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

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey, in Good Housekeeping
US actress & television talk show host (1954 - )

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge
30th president of US (1872 - 1933)

 

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 - 1965)