“As an 8-year-old, I dreamed I would someday own the best restaurant in the world. People ask me about the secret to my success. There is no secret. You have to have persistence and a burning desire to succeed.” Dave Thomas July 1932 – Atlantic City, New...
“Whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is well with my soul.” Horatio Spafford November 24, 1873 – Chicago, Illinois: The French luxury steamship SS Ville du Havre sailed...
“The fact of being an underdog changes people in way that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.” Malcolm Gladwell 1926 –...
“For each of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.” Thomas Merton November 16, 1917 – Cairo, Egypt: The funeral possession slowly crossed the Nile River to a British...
“Never, never be afraid to do the right thing…society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict in our soul when we look the other way.” Martin Luther King, Jr 1987 – Rockdale County High School – Conyers, Georgia: It has been 35 years, but people in...
“Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief, and yet in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which His supernatural power is demonstrated.” Charles Stanley April 1820 – Putnam, New York: The...
