Chanakya

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
- Chanakya

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maya Angelou

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
- Maya Angelou

Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Harper Lee

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. 
— Harper Lee

Anon.

If you give in today, you will be twice as likely to give in tomorrow.