Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

Materialism • Money

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Communication • Conflict • Motivational

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Family • Generation • Love

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Determination • Improvement • Motivational

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Age • Life • Time

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

Dreams • Imagination • Nature

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Productivity • Work

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Acceptance • Happiness • Love

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Accountability • Growth • Improvement

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Adversity • Character • Prosperity