You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time you have to have courage.
Maya AngelouSelf-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel JohnsonIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonHow many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham LincolnOur life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciNothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de BalzacThe superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
ConfuciusI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates