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- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Josiah Quincy
- If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
- Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
- Rabbinical Saying
- Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
- Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
- He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
- Jewish Proverb
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