Morning Coffee Quotes for a New Year

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
- Carl Jung

"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
- Seneca

"Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is oft but perseverance in disguise."
- Henry Willard Austin

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable."
- Peter Drucker

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
- Aldous Huxley

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln