“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”

― Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

― Thomas Merton

“Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real”

― Thomas Merton

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

― Martin Luther

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”

― Nelson Mandela

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

― Martin Luther

“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

― Abraham Lincoln

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

― Winston S. Churchill

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

― Barack Obama

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

― Martin Luther

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

― Charles Dickens

The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

― quote from The Bible

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

― Billy Graham

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

quote from the Bible

"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

― Christopher Robin