The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard
There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best. – Doris Lessing
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can. – Julius Caesar
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. – Charles Buxton
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. – Benjamin Franklin
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol
We become what we think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. – Helen Keller