Quotation Collection

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.

Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.

Sanity means tying it to your own actions. Marcus Aurelius

• self esteem
• ambition

This is the source.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. Bette Davis

• confidence
• humility

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. George Patton

• leadership
• decisiveness

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness, and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. Marcus Aurelius

• character
• complaint
• thrift

This is the source.