Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. John Dewey
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Emerson
Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week. Charles Richards
Death, and faxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them! Margaret Michell
Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes. Agnes Turnbull
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. T. S. Eliot