A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
-Dutch proverb
To be content with little is hard; to be content with much is impossible.
-Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Negligence produces a lot of dirt. As in a house, so in the mind, only a very little dirt collects in a day or two, but if it goes on for many years, it will grow into a vast heap of refuse.
-Commentary to Sutta Nipata
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
-William S. Halsey
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page.
-Saint Augustine
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Chinese Proverb
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
-Ovid
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
-Macbeth
To fight fear, act. To increase fear-wait, put off, postpone.
-David J. Schwartz