The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~ Socrates
The only journey is the journey within.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
~ Doug Firebaugh
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
~ Hecato, Greek philosopher
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
~ Herbert Otto
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
~ Marquise du Deffand
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
~ Benjamin Franklin
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
~ La Rochefoucauld
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
~ William James
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
~ William Shakespeare
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
~ Albert Einstein
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
~ Leon J. Suenes
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
~ John C. Geikie
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.
~ J. B. Gough
Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
~ Thomas Fuller
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
~ Kal Menninger
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
~ Hypocrites
After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian Proverb
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