You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
-- Irish Proverb

You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
-- Welsh Proverb

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
-- Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
-- Dr. David M. Burns

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
-- The laws of Manu

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
-- Tallulah Bankhead

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Charity see the need not the cause.
-- German Proverb

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-- Franklin P. Jones

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
-- Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal"