Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

James 1:5

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

Jack Kornfield

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: to rise above the little things.

John Burroughs

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Aeschylus

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Miguel de Cervantes