"To be successful at anything, you don't have to be special. You just have to be what most people aren't: consistent, determined and willing to work for it. No shortcuts." - Tom Brady

“The man, the more he studies, the simpler he becomes, because as he studies he discovers the greatness of his ignorance.” — Aristotle

"Nothing kills human soul like the wrong place and the wrong people." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A good man without strength is hoping that evil has mercy." — Sun Tzu

"A wise person does not say everything they think, but thinks about everything they say." ~ Aristotle

"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely." — Carl Jung

Short is the pain; eternal the glory. -St. Augustine

Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he is in prison.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

"A man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is, indeed the greatest of conquerors." — Buddha

I came to conquer the world, not to make friends. - Alexander The Great

“Beware of the anger of a patient man.” - Irish Proverb

"No one can use you if you are useless." - Sun Tzu

“The highest form of peace is having no desire to be seen, validated or understood by anyone.” — Epictetus

Just because I give you advice doesn't mean I'm smarter than you, it means I've made more Mistakes. - Miyamoto Musashi

"A man is respected for what he achieves, not for what he promises." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The man who can walk away from what he desires for the sake of what he must become is a man no one can own." — Epictetus

“The goal of life: not with the majority, but to escape the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius

"So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be." — Oscar Wilde

“Associate with those who will make a better man of you.” — Seneca

“The difference between humans and wolves; that they don’t allow the fool to lead the pack.” — Winston Churchill