What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Aristotle
One who has never met adversity will not develop foresight.
- Chinese Proverbs
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
- Swami Vivekananda
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
- Swami Vivekananda
Challenges are the most truthful and strictest of teachers.
- Chinese Proverbs
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
- Swami Vivekananda
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
- Swami Vivekananda
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
- Ben Jonson
If you are looking for solace, you believe. If you are looking for a solution, you seek
- Sadhguru
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
- Voltaire
The measure of who we are is, What we do with what we have.
- Vince Lombardi
The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.
- Tricia Cunningham
You cannot open a book without learning something.
- Confucius
A common saying of parents who idolize their offspring and liken the child’s abilities to the sun.
- Chinese Proverbs
Adversity brings us into deep waters not to drown us, but to cleanse us.
- Chinese Proverbs
The truth is seldom welcome, especially at dinner.
- Margaret Atwood
The best form of flattery is to master the art of listening.
- Chinese Proverbs
No matter how tall the mountain, it cannot block out the sun.
- Chinese Proverbs
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- André Gide
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe