Strength isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing your own path, and living with the consequences.Jennifer Armintrout
People aren’t punished for their sins, they’re punished by their sins. This is the gravest and surest punishment.Leo Tolstoy
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.Theodore Roosevelt
The programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have.Milton Friedman
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Don Marquis
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.Joyce Brothers
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.Plato
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.Friedrich Nietzsche
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.Benjamin Franklin
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.Alvin Toffler
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.Judith Viorst
When anger rises, think of the consequences.To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.Confucius
All success is a lagging indicator… all the good stuff (and bad stuff) is downstream from choices made long before.Ray Dalio