Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Inspiration
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Lao Tzu
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
-Winston S. Churchill
A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be that self which one truly is.
-Søren Kierkegaard
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ask, and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
-Jesus Christ
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
-Mark Twain
