Henry Ward Beecher

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Better an ‘oops’ than a ‘what if’.

Someday is not a day of the week.

You either get bitter or you get better. It’s that simple. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate, it belongs to you.

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

The one thing coaches cannot tolerate… is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it.

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.

The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now.

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.