“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
Open-Mindedness
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
- Thích Nhat Hanh
Evolution
“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself."
- Anais Nin
Mindfulness
“The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.”
- Alan Watts
Gratitude
“Develop an ‘attitude of gratitude.’ Say, ‘Thank you,’ to everyone you meet for everything they do for you.”
–Brian Tracy
Fortitude
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”
–Dr. Henry Link
Perseverance
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou
Action
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney
Duty
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.”
-Luke 12:48
