If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.

– Maya Angelou

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

– Princess Elizabeth Bibesco

A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

– William Blake

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.

– Charles Buxton

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

– Sir Winston Churchill

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

– Confucius

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

– English proverb

It’s never crowded along the “extra mile.”

– Wayne Dyer

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

– Anne Frank

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

– Indira Gandhi

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

– Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

– Andre Gide

A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

– Greek proverb

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

– Wayne Gretzky

I am only one, but still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

– Edward Everett Hale

A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

– Grace Murray Hopper

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

– Thomas Jefferson

Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value.

– Michael Josephson

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

– Lao Tzu

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

– Abraham Lincoln

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be successful, don’t give or take excuses.

–

Florence Nightingale

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

– Juan Montalvo

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

– Theodore Roosevelt

One thing I know. The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

– Albert Schweitzer

It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.

– Sir John Marks Templeton

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

– Mark Twain

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

– John Wooden

Those who fight fire with fire burn their houses down twice as fast.

– Vietnamese proverb