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The
way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to
be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
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The
fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the
cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as
well as we can.
Robert Cushing
The
searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought
to be the primary study of man.
Cicero
The
only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Know
thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what
you know, and what you can do.
Menander
Yes,
know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.
Juvenal
Men
soon the faults of others learn
A few their virtues, too, find out;
But is there one—I have a doubt—
Who can his own defects discern?
Sanskrit Proverb
Collect
as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Abd-el-Kadar
If
we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us
no shade when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield
If
you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead
of idling it away?
Lord Chesterfield
Follow
your honest convictions, and stay strong.
William Thackeray
He
that will not reflect is a ruined man.
Asian Proverb
Every
day do something that will inch you closer to a better
tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh
God
ever works with those who work with will.
Aeschylus
Insist
on yourself. Never imitate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Heaven
never helps the man who will not act.
Sophocles
Knowing
yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
Our
ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion
to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
In
learning to know other things, and other minds, we become
more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to
ourselves better worth knowing.
Philip Gilbert Hamilton
What
progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a
friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
We
are either progressing or retrograding all the while;
there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this
life.
James Freeman Clarke
To
conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to
be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most
ignoble defeat.
Plato
Everybody
wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The
happiest life is that which constantly exercises and
educates what is best in us.
Hamerton
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
Your
real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
A. Bronson Alcott
Energy
and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
If
we all did the things we are capable of,
we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
A
man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for
it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
Fear
less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe
more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and
good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb
Make
it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult
lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
The
best rules to form a young man are: to talk little,
to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed
in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value
others that deserve it.
Sir William Temple
Exert
your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think
of retiring from the world, until the world will be
sorry that you retire.
Samuel Johnson
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