"Calmness, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and purity: these are the disciplines of the mind."
-Bhagavan Krishna
Calmness
"Like water, which does not retain any impression of the waves that play on its bosom, the mind should manifest calmness at all times."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Attitude
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
-Theodore Roosevelt
Character
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Talent
“Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”
-Benjamin Franklin
Action
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
-William Butler Yeats
Character
"The things that we love tell us what we are."
-Thomas Aquinas
Success
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-Vince Lombardi
Love
"To love another person is to see the face of God."
-Victor Hugo
Judgement
"The more one judges, the less one loves."
-Honoré de Balzac
Love
"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
-Mother Teresa
Fatherhood
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-Rev. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC
Happiness
"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
-Confucius
Courage
"The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
– Albert Einstein
Friendship
"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
-Euripides
Honor
"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."
-Sophocles
Wholeness
"One's not half of two; two are halves of one."
-E.E. Cummings
Bravery
"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
-Thucydides
