"It's only in winter that the pine..." - Quote by Confucius

“Study the past if you want to define the future.”

“Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.”

“Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”

“Failure gave me strength. Pain was my motivation”

“The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.”

“When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'”

“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”

“Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.”

“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.”