“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” – Socrates

“If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life.” – Erwin Chargaff

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“The most reliable route to personal happiness is to make others happy.” – Henry Marsh

“Giving is the highest level of living.” – John C. Maxwell

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.” – D.H. Lawrence

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.” – George Washington

“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” – Margaret Thatcher

“Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.” – Ellison S. Onizuka

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.” – Heraclitus

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Who is wise? One who learns from every man.” – Ben Zoma

“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.” – Johann von Schiller

“While we teach, we learn.” – Seneca

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” – Seneca

“Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.” – Seneca

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” – Seneca

“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.” – Seneca

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” – Dante Alighieri

“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” – Madeline Albright

“Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory.” – Winston Churchill

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” – Joseph Joubert

“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” – Max de Pree

“The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.” – Zig Ziglar

“You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.” – Stephen R. Covey

“Life is routine and routine is resistance to wonder.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” – Woodrow Wilson

“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.” – Charles Darwin

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Mary Schmich

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.” – Voltaire

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas Szasz

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” – Aristotle

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.” – Aristotle

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” – Oscar Wilde

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.” – Margaret Mead

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?” – Benjamin Franklin

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” – John F. Kennedy

“We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share.” – Rania Al-Abdullah

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.” – Niccolò Machiavelli

“It is easier to judge the mind of a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato

“Laws are made to instruct the good, and in the hope that there may be no need of them; also to control the bad, whose hardness of heart will not be hindered from crime.” – Plato

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.” – Plato

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates

“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.” – Hippocrates

“More often than not, something is not obtained because there’s no attempt to obtain it.” – Baltasar Gracián

“If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you’re too late.” – Paul Hawken

“The mind is something that does not function if it becomes attached to a single situation.” – Takuan Soho

“What you have experienced, no power on Earth can take from you.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.” – Miyamoto Musashi

“In just refusing to retreat from something one gains the strength of two men.” – Yamamoto Tsunemoto

“Great men are those who see that thoughts rule the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t seek praise, seek criticism.” – Benjamin Hardy

“Life is too short to be little.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at.” – Mark Manson

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald