The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static sage mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
– Joshua Waitzkin
The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It’s the same thing, fear, but it’s what you do with it that matters.
– Cus D’Amato
Make sure you’re not made Emperor, avoid that imperial stain. It can happen to you, so keep yourself simple, good, pure, saintly, plain, a friend of justice, god-fearing, gracious, affectionate, and strong for your proper work. Fight to remain the person that philosophy wished to make you. Revere the gods, and look after each other. Life is short-the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good.
-Marcus Aurelius
Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
-Emerson
Believe me, it’s better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market.
-Seneca