2018

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Attributed #

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

John Wooden #

Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

François de La Rochefoucauld #

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson A Return to Love #

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln Attributed — probably adapted from Robert Ingersoll writing about Lincoln #

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Will Durant The Story of Philosophy — often attributed to Aristotle #

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden #

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi Attributed — a paraphrase of his writing #

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.