To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'