"Be not simply good -- be good for something." Henry Thoreau
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- "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." Christian Boyee
- "Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do." William Channing
- "No one can give you better advice than yourself." Cicero
- "And only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous; to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly." Dorothy Thompson
- "What you can become, you are already." Friedrich Hebbel
- "One who fears limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again." Henry Ford
- "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." Epicurus
- "God gives every bird his food, but He does not throw it into the nest." Josiah Gilbert Holland
- "What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you." Seneca
- "No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself." James Russell Lowell
- "It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." Cicero
- "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Oliver Goldsmith
- "Unless you find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living." Josiah Royce
- "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well." Josh Billings
- "The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself." Washington Allston
- "We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse." Rudyard Kipling
- "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise." Proverbs 17:28
- "Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases." John W. Raper
- "One of the rarest things that man ever does is to do the best he can." Josh Billings
- "The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out." George Jean Nathan
- "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it." Washington Irving
- "Be not simply good -- be good for something." Henry Thoreau
- "Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." Matthew Arnold
- "Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one." Marcus Aurelius
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