"Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."- Chinua Achebe

"You must assume responsibility for what you believe."- Richard W. Hamming

"Do birds trust the branch on which they land or do they trust their wings, I have never seen a branch break and the bird die, therefore trust your wings."- Random Old Guy

"True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind and fluidity of thought."- Robert Greene

"There is absolutely nothing you're supposed to be doing."- Eckhart Tolle

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."- Steve Jobs

"The unexamined life is not worth living."- Socrates

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor."- Roosevelt

"One of the most powerful lessons failure teaches is how fast uninformed optimisim turns into informed pessimism."- Ethan