Perseverance!

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done,

 and then we shall find the way.” 

~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

A Life in Brief

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws of the United States, and end the secession.

More:  

http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln

A clear path!

“Paths clear 

for those who know where they’re  going 

and are determined to get there.”

~  Leonard Roy Frank 

Leonard Roy Frank (born July 15, 1932, in New York) is an American human rights activist, psychiatric survivor, editor, writer, aphorist, and lecturer. Since 1959 he has lived in San Francisco, where he managed an art gallery before he began collecting great quotations. (It was Leonard Roy Frank who discovered notable artist G. Mark Mulleian in 1969 and displayed his work at the Frank gallery.)^[

To continue learning about Leonard Roy Frank, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Roy_Frank