Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.Friedrich Nietzsche
Confidence doesn't come from pretending you're perfect. It comes from knowing you're willing to improve.Henry Cavill
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.Arthur Brisbane
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.Seneca the Younger
The way you increase your energy is by letting go, ultimately. There is something inside you that knows what it should do, and you fight it all the time.Frederick Lenz
Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.Halle Bailey
Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.Paulo Coelho
Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.Michael O'Donoghue
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.George Eliot
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.Stephen R. Covey
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.Albert Camus
Knowing how little you matter is very important for your mental health and your happiness.Naval Ravikant
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.Norman Vincent Peale