My growing collection of favourite quotations:
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Abdul Kalam
Wherever you are - be all there.
Jim Elliot
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
Abraham Lincoln
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte