Our glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-Saint Francis
A man is what he is, not what he used to be.
-Yiddish proverb
Disparaging words pain a man even when uttered in jest.
Therefore, those who know human nature are courteous even to their enemies.
-Tirukkural
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
-Margaret Thatcher
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
-Ken Blanchard
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
-Anonymous
All my days I have been raised among the Sages, and I found nothing better for oneself than silence; not study, but practice is the main thing; and one who talks excessively brings on sin.
-Shimon ben Rabban Gamliel
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Before enlightenment,
I chopped wood and carried water.
After enlightenment,
I chopped wood and carried water.
-Zen saying