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- Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
- Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud
- Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
- French Proverb
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
- When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor
- I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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