The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.
Confucius

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso