Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then, the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.
Phillips Brooks
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you will know right away what you amount to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The ideal person is he who takes pleasure in serving others, and who is ashamed when others do things for him, since showing compassion is a sign of superiority and receiving it a sign of failure.
Aristotle
The habit of looking on the bright side in every circumstance is more valuable than having a large income.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
A little philosophy makes one lean towards disbelief, and to delve into philosophy brings the mind closer to religion.
Francis Bacon
Despite being a slave, I am a noble chief;
And despite being black in colour, I have a white character.
Antara