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""What is morality" she asked. "Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.""
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
Russian-American Writer and Philosopher
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"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.""
- Jim Collins (B - 1958)
American business consultant, from his book, Good to Great
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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
- Horace
(65-8 BC) Roman Poet
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"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
American Writer
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"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
- Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845)
7th President of the United States
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"Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
Hungarian Biochemist 1937 Nobel Prize for Physiology
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
16th President of the United States
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"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"
- Jonathan Winters (1925 - 2013 )
American stand-up comedian
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
American Author and Humorist (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
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"I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail."
- Charles A. Beard (1874 - 1948)
American historians
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