A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.John F. Kennedy
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.Aristotle
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.Benjamin Franklin
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.Simone Weil
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.Confucius
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost