01. " “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

(c.640-546 BC) Greek philosopher, scientist of Miletus, of Seven Wise Men of Greece
.

02. “Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Greatest Roman orator, statesman, philosopher & author, as consul
fought corruption.

03. “He who is attached to things will suffer much.”

- Lao Tzu (c.604-531 BC) The Tao Te Ching. Great Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism.

04. "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

05. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

06. "Study the past, if you would divine the future."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

07. "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

08. "The object of the superior man is truth."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

09. "The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

10. "The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

11. "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that
will unlock the door to personal excellence."
Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

13. "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

14. "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

Kung Fu-tzu Confucius (c. 551-c. 479 BC) Chinese philosopher.

15. "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought,
pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that
never leaves him."

Buddha (563-483 BC) Indian founder of Buddhism, born in Himalayan foothills, now S. Nepal.

16. "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it
agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

Buddha (563-483 BC) Indian founder of Buddhism, born in Himalayan foothills, now S. Nepal

17. "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."

Anonymous

18. "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas Alva Edison

19. "Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means
permit."

Aristotle

20. "Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

Aristotle

21. "I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear
of the law."

Aristotle
22. "In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and
the will of the majority is supreme."

Aristotle

23. "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."

Aristotle

24. "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."

Aristotle

25, "The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain
from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."

26. "The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."

Aristotle

27. "The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle

28. "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach."

Aristotle

29. "Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last."

Aristotle

30. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

31. "We make war that we may live in peace."

Aristotle

32. "We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the
right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."

Aristotle
33. "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle

34. "Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

Aristotle

35. "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to
honor."

Aristotle

36. "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

Aristotle

37. "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich."

Democritus

38. "Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."

Democritus

39. "Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

Democritus

40. "Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss."

Democritus

41. "It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."

Democritus

42. "He has the most who is most content with the least."

Diogenes

43. "Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits
a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

Diogenes

44. "Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of
distinguishing one."

Diogenes