:::Benjamin Franklin:::

  • By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

:::Dwight D. Eisenhower:::

  • Who can define for us with accuracy the difference between the long and short term! Especially whenever our affairs seem to be in crisis, we are almost compelled to give our first attention to the urgent present rather than to the important future.

:::George Foreman:::

  • Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

:::H.G. Wells:::

  • If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

:::H. Jackson Brown Jr.:::

  • Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
  • The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

:::Jesse Jackson:::

  • At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

:::Judy Garland:::

  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

:::Mark Twain:::

  • Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

:::Molière:::

  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

:::Nelson Mandela:::

  • It always seems impossible until it is done.

:::Pablo Picasso:::

  • Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

:::Scott McKnight, the Jesus Creed:::

  • Conversion, like wisdom, takes a lifetime

:::Thomas Aquinas:::

  • Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

:::Thomas Sowell:::

  • Next time an academic preaches to you about equality and inclusivity, ask them how many Republicans are in their sociology department.

:::Washington Irving:::

  • Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

:::Winston Churchill:::

  • The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

:::Unknown:::

  • I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.
  • It is hard to win an argument against an intelligent person, but it is impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.