"Courage is the middle ground between confidence and fear." --- Aristotle (Greece)
"The world belongs to the brave." --- Christopher Columbus (Italy)
"A person's potential for success depends solely on whether he possesses self-esteem and self-confidence." --- Socrates (Greece)
"In school and in life, the most important driving force behind work is the joy found within the work itself, the pleasure of achieving results, and the recognition of the social value of those results." --- Albert Einstein (USA)
"Everyone has certain ideals that determine the direction of their efforts and judgments. In this sense, I have never considered ease and happiness to be the end goal of life in itself." --- Albert Einstein (USA)
"True happiness is optimism in life, pleasure in work, and passion for one's career." --- Albert Einstein (USA)
"Great joy comes from the contemplation of beautiful works." --- Democritus (Greece)
"One should not pursue every kind of pleasure, but only noble pleasures." --- Democritus (Greece)
"If happiness lies in bodily pleasure, then one might say that an ox is happy when it finds grass to eat." --- Heraclitus (Greece)
"Only by expecting little can one approach the highest happiness." --- Socrates (Greece)
"Those who believe in truth are blessed by heaven." --- Benjamin Franklin (USA)
"Truth is easily born from error, but difficult to emerge from confusion." --- Francis Bacon (UK)
"In the long river of human history, truth is heavy like gold and always sinks to the bottom, making it hard to discover; conversely, false errors, light as dung, float on the surface and spread everywhere." --- Francis Bacon (UK)
