“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
-Sun Tzu
Magnanimity
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
-Miyamoto Musashi
Knowledge
“Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.”
― Inazo Nitobe
Adaptability
“Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.”
-Plato
Wealth
“Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.”
-Antisthenes
Character
“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
-Heraclitus
Free Will
“No man is hurt but by himself.”
-Diogenes
Injustice
“If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
-Democritus
Excellence
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
-Aristotle
Empathy
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Plato
Boldness
“Live your life as an exclamation rather than an explanation.”
-Isaac Newton
Ambition
“Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
-William Wordsworth
Tranquility
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
-John Donne
Mind
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”
-John Milton
Integrity
“Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.”
- Geoffrey Chaucer
Love
“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”
– William Shakespeare
Fulfillment
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.”
-Lao Tzu
Math
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
-Yogi Berra
Open-mindedness
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
― Shunryu Suzuki
Mindfulness
“If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. That is very serious!"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
