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
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-Carl Band
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I start where the last man left off.
-Thomas A. Edison
Be that self which one truly is.
-Søren Kierkegaard
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
It is not miserable to be blind, it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
-John Milton
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Henry Ford
We must be our own before we can be another's.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
