Everybody wants to go to heaven; but nobody wants to die

With God on our side we will win
Bible Psalm 108 vs 13

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.
W. L. Bateman

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Idleness is the parent of all psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
Homer Simpson

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures
George W Bush

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

And one quote just for fun.....

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields