I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty. I acted and behold– Duty was Joy. –Rabindranath Tagore

“Vision without task is only a dream. A task without vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.” –Willie Stone

“Men will work hard for money. Men will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. . . Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” –William Shakespeare

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. — T. S. Eliot

“God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” –Reinhold Niebuhr

“Pursue your goals with all your heart, might, mind and strength. You are doomed to failure if you pursue them in a vacillating manner” — Robert D. Hales

“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone” — C. S. Lewis