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- Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
- Dr. David M. Burns
- Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
- Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never spend your money before you have it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
- Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
- John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
- The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
- Sir Henry Taylor
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