1. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain. – Maya Angelou

2. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Princess Elizabeth Bibesco

3. A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. – William Blake

4. You will never find time for anything. You must make it. – Charles Buxton

5. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. – Sir Winston Churchill

6. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. – Confucius

7. A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. – English proverb

8. It’s never crowded along the “extra mile.” – Wayne Dyer

9. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank

11. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi

12. An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. – Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi

13. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. – Andre Gide

14. A society grows great when old people plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. – Greek proverb

15. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky

16. I am only one, but still I am one. / I cannot do everything, / But still I can do something; / And because I cannot do everything / I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

17. A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – Grace Murray Hopper

18. In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

19. Everything you do sends a message about who you are and what you value. – Michael Josephson

20. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

21. My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure. – Abraham Lincoln

22. To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

23. If you want to be successful, don’t give or take excuses. – Florence Nightingale

24. There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference. – Juan Montalvo

25. To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. – Theodore Roosevelt

26. One thing I know. The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. – Albert Schweitzer

27. It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice. – Sir John Marks Templeton

28. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. – Mark Twain

29. Failing to plan is planning to fail. – John Wooden

30. Those who fight fire with fire burn their houses down twice as fast. – Vietnamese proverb