This is a collection of quotes that speak to me in one way or another. Maybe you will find one that you like.

• “Live in such a way that anything you would admit to yourself could be admitted even to an enemy.” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Margaret Graver, and A. A. Long, Letters on Ethics)
• “We’ve got to teach history and nurture history and encourage history because it’s an antidote to the hubris of the present—the idea that everything we have and everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best.” (David McCullough, The American Spirit)
• “The path of mastering something is the combination of not only doing the best you can do at it, but also doing it the best it can be done.” (Gary Keller, Jay Papasan, The ONE Thing)
• “When you learn to see the world as it is, and not as you want it to be, everything changes.” (Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien, The Great Mental Models)
• “The brick walls are there for a reason. They’re not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” (Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow, The Last Lecture)
• “It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.” (Epictetus, Enchiridion)
• “People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.” (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry)
• ““With myself, I have to hold the line. There are areas within myself where I CANNOT compromise. I am going to work hard. I am going to train hard. I am going to improve myself. I am not going to rest on my laurels. I am going to own my mistakes and confront them. I am going to face my demons. I’m not going to give up, or give out, or give in. I’m going to stand. I am going to maintain my self-discipline. And on those points there will be No Compromise. NOT NOW.  NOT EVER.”” (Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom)
• “Don’t just live, but live for a purpose bigger than yourself. Be an asset to your family, community, and country.” (Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer, No Easy Day)