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
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
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
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
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
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
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
Aristotle
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.
Edward Bulwer Lytton
We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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
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
