To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
-  G.K. Chesterton

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good deed by stealth and have it found out by accident.
-  Charles Lamb 

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-  Helen Keller 

There are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
-  Indira Gandhi 

You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
-  Charles Allen 

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
-Vietnamese saying 

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
-  Josh Jenkins  

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
-  Mark Twain 

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.
-  Ruth Ann Schabacker 

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
-  Homer Simpson 

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-  Herm Albright 

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and I could say, "I used everything that you gave me."
-  Erma Bombeck 

If you look at zero you see nothing; but look through it and you will see the world.
-  Robert Kaplan 

Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
-  St. Francis de Sales 

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
-  Jessica Lange 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-  Winston Churchill 

The only people to get even with are those who have helped you.
-  Anonymous 

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-  Vince Lombardi 

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
-  Rabbi Harold Kushner 

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
-  Anonymous 

If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
-William Penn  

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
-Emily Dickinson  

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter.
-Bono  

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
-Robert Louis Stevenson  

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
-Mohandas Gandhi  

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
-Robert M. Pirsig  

Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.
-Babe Ruth  

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
-Karl Barth  

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
-John Ruskin  

Old age, to the unlearned, is winter; to the learned, it’s harvest time.
-Yiddish saying  

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him, "What are you going through?"
-Simone Weil  

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
-William James  

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don’t talk back.
-W.K. Hope 

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
-Sydney J. Harris  

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.
-William Wordsworth  

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
-John Masefield  

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.
-Alice Mackenzie Swaim