“Inscriptions at Delphi: 'Know theyself.' 'Nothing in excess.' 'Offer a guarantee and disaster threatens.'”— Unknown, niravata.com
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear merely what is necessary, still less conceal it... but love it.”— Nietzche, fullscream.com
“There's value in disaster. All our mistakes burned up. Thank god we can start again.”— Thomas Edison, soundshoremedia.com
“[Johnson was] this amazing negro from Texas, this black man with the unfailing smile, this king of fighters and monologists... No one understands him, this man who smiles. Well, the story of the fight is the story of a smile. If ever a man won by nothing more than fatiging [sic] than a smile, Johnso…”— Jack London, amazon.com
“Cheerful people don't get frustrated, hurt, or rejected–though they create those feelings in the people attempting to stop them.”— Richard O'Connor, amazon.com
“In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safe companion than a pleasant falsehood.”— Theodore Roosevelt, amazon.com
“All humans are like quadriplegics. We must accept the operational constraints imposed on us by who we are.”— John Lachs, amazon.com
“You ought to be preparing yourself... to hear truths which no inflexibility will be able to withstand.”— James Madison, founders.archives.gov
“The Fates guide the person who accepts them and hinder the person who resists them.”— Cleanthes, thoughtcatalog.com
“When fortune had deprived him of all hope for the future and driven him to the last extremity, then, while he used every resource which might bring him victory both in his preparations for the battle and on the field itself, he gave equal thought to how in the event of total defeat he could face tha…”— Polyibus, amazon.com
“Everything we could think of to do has been done; the troops are fit; everybody is doing his best. The answer is in the lap of the gods.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower, amazon.com
“But there are insuperable obstacles. Then its not a problem. The cause of your inaction lies outside you.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“The human soul dishonors itself when it does not direct its actions and impulses as much as possible, towards some goal, but instead does whatever it does, it does inconsiderately bad without reflection.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“In the first place: nothing at random, and nothing that is not related to some goal. Second: do not relate your actions to anything other than a goal which may serve the human community.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com
“Impassivity with regards to the events, brought about by the exterior cause.”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com