"Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.”

“It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.”

“Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.”

“Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.”

“The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.”

“Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.”

“The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.”

“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”

“Discipline enables you to think first and act second.”