“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” — George Herbert
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” — Jim Valvano
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” — Frank A. Clark
“If the past cannot teach the present, and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.” — Russell Hoban
“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” — Charles Kettering
“It was well done of Paul to reprove Peter to his face, and it was well done of Peter, to praise Paul in his absence.” — Thomas Adams
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” — George Washington Carver
“A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.” — John Quincy Adams
“What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.” — Ravi Zacharias
“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.” — John Bunyan
“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” — Williams James
“Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.” — Dale Carnegie
“True success if overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.” — Paul Sweeney
“The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.” — Malcolm F. MacNeil
“The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” — C.S. Lewis
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” — Frederick Douglass
“The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity or nationality or religion. It is an idea, and what an idea it is — that you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice
“America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination.” — Harry S. Truman
“No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.” — Mac Thornberry
“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.” — Wendell L. Wilkie
“There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.” — Benjamin Franklin
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” — Louis Pasteur
“Reason can in general do more than blind force.” — Gallus
“I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.” — Lindon Baines Johnson
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain