“Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it.”

James Truslow Adams

“One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closest friends, if they seem OK, then you’re the one.”

Ann Landers

“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.”

Alexander von Humboldt

“Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.”

Henry Ford

“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth lies within their vision.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.”

Julius Charles Hare

“I don’t want yesmen around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth–even though it costs him his job.”

Samuel Goldwyn

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening”

Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right, and stick to it”

George Eliot

“The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices”

Frederick the Great