"They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them."
-Gandhi
"Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be."
-Goethe
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
-Goethe
"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods."
-Thomas Paine
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."