Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

Scottish Proverb

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Proverb

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience

Anthony Quinn

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Beau Bridges

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

Chief Joseph

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Aristotle

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.

Ernest Hemingway

You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?

Sidney Jourard, Transparent Self

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

Paul Ryan

You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln