Seneca

"In making a commitment, you set yourself in motion toward your dreams."

"Patience is a virtue that comes from understanding our own nature."

"The proper function of man is to live, not merely to exist."

"True power lies in the ability to command your own thoughts."

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"As it is with the body, so it is with the mind: pleasure not taken in moderation becomes pain."

"The greatest grace is to give freely what you have received freely."

"You have eternity in which to accomplish what you choose."

"The brave man does not rush into conflict needlessly; he prepares with wisdom first."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions, without wishing for what you have not."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"Wealth is the test of a man's character."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"True freedom is being your own master."

"What is evil? Ignorance."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."

"He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand."

"The obstacle is the way."

"Nowhere is the one who thinks about his death."

"Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be."

"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."

"Fate guides the willing, and drags along the unwilling."

"The day you stop learning is the day you stop living."