A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.
Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me you don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step the man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.