Don’t drown the man who taught you to swim.
—Common Proverb
If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.
—Common Proverb
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)
It’s too late to shut the barn door after the horse has been stolen.
—Common Proverb
Let there be no doubt: as long as you continue to blame others instead of assuming your responsibilities, you will make no meaningful and enduring change for the better. What kind of people are we, if we don’t have the character to own up to our own shortcomings and responsibilities? To have and enjoy certain liberties requires us to hold each other and ourselves accountable for our actions.
—Gary Ryan Blair
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)
Anxiety about the future never profits; we feel no evil until it comes, and when we feel it, no counsel helps; wisdom is either too early or too late.
—Friedrich Ruckert
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)