"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Awareness
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
- Leonardo da Vinci
Awareness
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Self-awareness
"If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Self-awareness
"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
- Leonardo da Vinci
Inspiration
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity