Do What You Can

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

The best portion of a good man's life is his little,
nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth

Give the world the best you have
and it may never be enough.
Give the world your best anyway.
- Kent Keith (frequently attributed to Mother Teresa)

It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
- Bob Proctor

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Further reading: Feed Just One

Take Action Today

Opportunity for Kindness

Manage Small Fires

A Single Step

John Wooden

Theodore Roosevelt

Keeping Secrets

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier

The man who can keep a secret may be wise,
but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
- Edgar Watson Howe

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
- Jean Racine

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence
you have not already tested.
- Elizabeth I

The fewer secrets you have, the happier you will be.
If you don't want others to know about it, don't do it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Pass the Word

Integrity

How to Make a Decision You Won't Regret

Secrets of Happy Couples

Honor

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws control the lesser man.
Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle 

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are
and what you stand for, where you want to go
and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Further reading:  What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

Honor

Conscience

The Test

Dignity

The Message of Easter

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

The great gift of Easter is hope -
Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God,
in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love,
which nothing can shake.
- Basil C. Hume

This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8

Guide our feet into the way of peace.
- Luke 1:79

One who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
- Voltaire

Today, Easter, the most Holy day on the Christian calendar, is a day to celebrate our spiritual natures. We are not just bones and flesh, chemicals and electricity, we are beings of Spirit, one with each other and one with the eternity and infinity of Creation.

On this day, let us affirm the core values of unconditional love of all humans and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all who are sick, infirm, or troubled - as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan. (Read more on Loving your enemies, the Golden Rule, and the parable of The Good Samaritan)

Further reading: Jesus own Words about Forgiveness and Unconditional Love

Being Humble

Love even those who hate you

Faith

Gratitude

Don't Settle for "Good Enough"

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Good enough never is.
- Debbi Fields

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Once you say you're going to settle for second,
that's what happens to you in life.
- John F. Kennedy

Don't settle for "good enough."
Decide what you want for yourself,
and be the best you can be.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Do more of what inspires you

Pleasing Everyone

Don't be Limited by what is "Reasonable"

Goals

Live Your Best Life

Perseverance

Enthusiasm

Living Life to the Fullest

Never Give Up