“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
""It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.""
- William Faulkner
Balance
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the Earth."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."
- William Faulkner
Courage
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."
- Anon
Self-improvement
"Do not think about other things, there is only one thing you can do. So master that one thing. Do not forget. What you must imagine is always that you, yourself, are the strongest. You do not need outside enemies. For you, the one you have to fight is none other than your own image."
- Archer
Self-improvement
"You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face."
- Roronoa Zoro
Self-improvement
"Take a page from the dragonfly's book – be vibrant and let your true colors shine"
Self-improvement