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“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”
Plato
“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.”
Nelson Mandela
“Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.”
— Unknown
“Do it with passion, or not at all.”
— Rosa Nouchette Carey
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dream.”
Les Brown
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
— Jules Verne
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
Virginia Woolf
“Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”
Samuel Butler
“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
— Tony Blair
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.”
John Carmack
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time.”
Lolly Daskal
“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
Buddha
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ”
George Washington
“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”
Plato
“Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.”
Lolly Daskal
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
— Walter Elliot
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee

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