Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want .
Jim Rohn
If we cannot do what we want, we must do what we can.
Terence
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Virgil
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Jerry Rice
Seek not the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are beyond thy strength.
Apocrypha
Learn to be pleased with everything,
with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others,
with poverty, for not having much to care for,
and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Plutarch
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Ben Jonson
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice.
Anonymous
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Anonymous
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Henry James
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarell