“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus AureliusMeditations, Book III
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”
Maya AngelouStill I Rise
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor FranklMan's Search for Meaning
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick DouglassWest India Emancipation Speech, 1857
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Albert EinsteinSaturday Evening Post interview, 1929
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
Helen KellerOptimism, 1903
“It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena... who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
Theodore RooseveltCitizenship in a Republic, 1910
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. RooseveltFirst Inaugural Address, 1933
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
SenecaLetters from a Stoic
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
Booker T. WashingtonUp From Slavery, 1901
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
Rosa Parks
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao TzuTao Te Ching