A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Live truth instead of professing it.
Elbert Hubbard
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C.S Lewis
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
No one ever changes until the pain level gets high enough.
Shauna Niequist
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Richter
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honor de Balzac
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.