“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.”
Oliver Goldsmith

“It’s surprising how many persons go through life without even recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves.
If you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.”
Sydney J. Harris

“Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.”
William Hazlitt

“The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Carlos Castoneda

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
Aldous Huxley

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
William Shakespeare

“Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”
John Andrew Holmes

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz

“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.”
P. T. Barnum

“When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Alexander Graham Bell