If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.
C.S Lewis
Keep reading books, but remember that a book is only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
Maxim Gorky
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Honor de Balzac
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine
If you wished to be loved, love.
Seneca
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka
He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
Lao Tzu
Old habits have deep roots.
Norwegian proverbs
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell
Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
Billy Graham
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one.
Marcus Aurelius
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
