As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

Doris Lessing

I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

Aleister Crowley

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

George Eliot

We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

J.K. Rowling

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Publilius Syrus

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Victor Hugo

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Success is just a matter of luck, all you need to do is ask a failure. History may be written by academics but it's rarely created by them.

Source Unknown

Life without risk is life wasted.

Santosh Kalwar

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do Justice, to love mercy, and to demean i. e. , comport ourselves with that Charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

George Washington

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Gertrude Jekyll