Without justice, courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1734). January

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1742). August

Work as if you were to live a hundred years, Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1757). May

God helps them that help themselves.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1736). June

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil · From the Aeneid: audentes fortuna iuvat.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!

Charlotte Brontë · Jane to Rochester in the orchard at Thornfield when she believes he is to marry Blanche Ingram and she must leave him; it is this outburst that draws his proposal.

Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples, or of Parliamentary democracy, or of France, or of the many surviving liberal States of Europe.” · Broadcast, London, 16 October 1938

“Without justice, courage is weak.”

“He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.”

“Work as if you were to live a hundred years, Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”

“God helps them that help themselves.”

“Fortune favors the brave.”

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”

“Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.”

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