If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
The universal voice of mankind is always declaring that justice and virtue are honourable, but grievous and toilsome; and that the pleasures of vice and injustice are easy of attainment, and are only censured by law and opinion. They say also that honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty; and they are quite ready to call wicked men happy, and to honour them both in public and private when they are rich or in any other way influential, while they despise and overlook those who may be weak and poor, even though acknowledging them to be better than the others.
Plato/Plátōn
The little things, I can obey. But the big things – how we think, what we value – those you must choose yourself. You can’t let anyone – or any society – determine those for you.
Morrie Schwartz
We often went to church twice on a Sunday, as well as on other occasions during the week. We were taught there always to make up our own minds and never take the easy way of following the crowd.
Margaret Thatcher
Speech at Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral by Richard Chartres, Bishop of London
Reference: Bishop of London Speech at Margaret Thatcher’s Funeral
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
Great minds discuss idea.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
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