Brainy Quote

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven;
confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully
the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world,
he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Josh Billings