“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
-Epictetus
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
–Plutarch
“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!”
-Horace
“Haste in every business brings failures.”
-Herodotus
“Fortune favors the bold.”
-Virgil
“Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
-Tacitus
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
-Pericles
“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
-Seneca the Younger
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
–Socrates