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