Blue Star Chronicles

1. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” ~ Booker T. Washington

2. “Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.” ~ Robert Fulghum

3. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

4. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

5. “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ~ Thomas Edison

6. “Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.” ~ Aristotle

7. “As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

8. “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

10. “A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

11. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde

12. “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

13. “Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe