Regarding equality

We are all born equal—equally helpless and equally indebted to others for whatever our survival turns out to be worth. - Cullen Hightower

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

Come worship the Lord

I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a big God beside me and live in fear. I need to worship because without it I can forget his calling and begin to live in a spirit of self-preoccupation. I need to worship because without it I lose a sense of wonder and gratitude and plod through life with blinders on. I need worship because my natural tendency is toward self-reliance and stubborn independence. - John Ortberg

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. - Charles Spurgeon

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run. - Augustine of Hippo

Take my advice

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. - Josh Billings

I’ve learned that you can’t expect your children to listen to your advice and ignore your example. -  51-year-old’s discovery

Do not be inaccessible. None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. He is an incorrigible ass who will never listen to anyone. Even the most surpassing intellect should find a place for friendly counsel. Sovereignty itself must learn to lean. There are some that are incorrigible simply because they are inaccessible: They fall to ruin because none dares to extricate them. The highest should have the door open for friendship; it may prove the gate of help. A friend must be free to advise, and even to upbraid, without feeling embarrassed. - Baltasar Gracián

Eye on the goal

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. - Thomas A. Edison

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. - Mabel Newcomber

Overcoming Adversity

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross is in our composition. - Charles Caleb Colton

There is no excellency without difficulty. - Ovid

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. - Portuguese Proverb

On Accomplishment

Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying, as if vainly attempting to overtake time that had been lost. - Tyron Edwards 

He who considers too much will perform little. - Johann Schiller

Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness. - Baltasar Gracian

To infinity and beyond

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. - Albert Camus

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence. - Henry Ford II

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten. - Bill Gates

The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived. - Eric Johnston

Work for your future as if you are going to live forever, for your afterlife as if you are going to die tomorrow. - Arabian proverb