Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good. As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Saint-Exupery Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. Whately One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. It is the means that determines the end.