Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

-Ralph Waldo
Emerson

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired
to glory

Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness — these by the chief sage have been
declared the elements of popularity.-Burmese Proverb

If your actions inspire others to dream more,learn more, do more and become more, you are a
leader. -John Quincy Adams

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us
which needs to be ignited with sparks.-Johann Gottfried Von Herder

Would you throw away a diamond because it pricked you? One good friend is not to be
weighed against all the jewels of all the earth. If there is coolness or unkindness between us, let
us come face to face and have it out. Quick, before the love grows cold. Life is too short to
quarrel in, or carry dark thoughts of friends. It is easy to lose a friend, but a new one will not
come for calling, nor make up for the old one when he comes.

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard
Hooker

The best things in life are not things

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what
others say about him.

Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.