Abraham Lincoln on bestowing grace: “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” —Abraham Lincoln
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one’s self.” —Søren Kierkegaard
“When you have learned something, that always feels at first as if you’ve lost something.” —H.G. Wells
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” —George R.R. Martin
o “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” —Haruki Murakami
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” —G.K. Chesterton
“It’s not the will to win that matters – everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” —Paul Bear Bryant
“Never doubt the power of a small group of people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” —Aldous Huxley