Fresh start, Security, Anger

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford

There is no safety in hiding.
~ Ted Kennedy

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Well said, Risk, Ideas

Well done is better than well said.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~ e e cummings

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
~ Goethe

Heroes, Attitudes, and Vision

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
~ Herm Albright

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Liberty

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

— Benjamin Franklin

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

— John Adams

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

— David Hume

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."

— John F. Kennedy

We bring small daily blessings

"Human felicity is produc'd not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day."

~ Benjamin Franklin

"Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage."

~ Albert Schweitzer

Ben, on education

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

~ Benjamin Franklin