No one is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of another
~ Charles Dickens

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
~ Marcel Proust

Love is the only thing
you get more of
by giving it away.
~ Tom Wilson

In seeking happiness for others
You find it yourself.
~ Unknown

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
~ Mother Teresa

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “here comes number seventy-one!”
~ Richard M. DeVos

Perseverence is not a long race;
it is many short races one after another.
~ Walter Elliot

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career.
I have lost almost 300 games.
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot…and I missed.
I have failed over and over and over again in my life. An that’s precisely why I succeed.
~ Michael Jordan

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine

Patience and Perseverance have a magical effect
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
~ John Quincy Adams

There will be a time when loud-mouthed,
incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you.
When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct.
It never fails.
~ Richard Rybolt

Learn the art of patience.
Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.
Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement, and failure.
Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook which eventually leads to success.
~ Brian Adams

Like farmers, we need to learn that we cannot sow and reap in the same day.
~ Unknown

It’s the constant and determined effort
that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
~ Claude M. Bristol

A great pleasure in life
is doing what people say you cannot do.
~Walter Gagehot

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
~ Thomas Edison

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree…
but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement…
that requires heroism which is transcendent.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
~ Galatians 6:9, Paul, the Bible

When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open for us.
~ Alexander Graham Bell

“Lead me not into temptation;”
I can find the way myself.
~ Rita Mae Brown

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
It is a powerful obstacle to growth.
It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality
and prevents exploration and experimentation.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling.
If you want to keep on learning,
you must keep on risking failure—all your life.
~ John W. Gardner

Most great people have attained their greatest success
just one step beyond their greatest failure.
~ Napolean HIll

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?
It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
~ Dr. Seuss

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~ Charles Dickens

I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
I thought how as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had roll’d along th’ unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bow’d my head:
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
‘Til ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow