Motivational Quotes

"We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs." ~ Anne Of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery "There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again." ~ The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action." ~ Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has great expectations." ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?" ~ Middlemarch by George Eliot We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker