I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglas

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Rumi

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

Socrates

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

The calmed say that what is well-spoken is best; second, that one should say what is right, not unrighteous; third, what's pleasing, not displeasing; fourth, what is true, not false.

Buddha

Existence wants you to be you.

Osho