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			 The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.  
	 The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll. 
		
 
	
			 They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear read more 
	 They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. 
		
 
	
			 Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
 "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
  Be read more 
	 Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
 "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold;
  Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
   That the defect; better the more than less;
    Better like Hector in the field to die,
     Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. 
		
 
	
			 Success has always been a great liar.  
	 Success has always been a great liar. 
		
 
	
			 Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone read more 
	 Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. 
		
 
	
			 He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether 
with his head.
 [Lat., Fungino genere read more 
	 He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether 
with his head.
 [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.] 
		
 
	
			 Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.  
	 Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. 
		
 
	
			 I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you read more 
	 I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. 
		
 
	
			 Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.  
	 Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.