Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.
-Albert Schweitzer
The wishbone will never replace the backbone.
-Will Henry
Only for his ruin
does renown come to the fool.
-Dhammapada
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
-Socrates
Gluttony feeds on itself. The more that the appetite is indulged, the stronger it becomes - and the harder it is to control. But if the appetite is restrained, then it soon grows weak and feeble, and finally disappears altogether.
-Razi
He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good.
-The Prophet Muhammad
If you have a sapling in your hand, and someone should say to you that the Messiah has come, stay and complete the planting, and then go to greet the Messiah.
-Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-Macbeth
Sometimes you have to take the leap,
and build your wings on the way down.
-Kobi Yamada