Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books!

Show me the man you honor, and I will show you the kind of a man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

Every noble work is at first impossible. quoted by Og Mandino.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance. The cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, and will preserve it longer.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

From the lowliest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.

The great law of culture is: let each become all that he was created capable of being.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.