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- One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
- Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
- Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
- Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Rhetoric
- Technology: No Place for Wimps!
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert
- The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Expect everything, and anything seems nothing.
Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. - Samuel Hazo
- Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility;
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger:
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. - Shakespeare, King Henry V, Act III, Scene 1
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