So this is what I found:

“The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we appear to be.”
-Socrates

“He who cannot change teh very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.”
-Anwar Sadat

“Character building begins in infancy and ends in death.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”
-Elbert Hubbard

“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.”
-Menander of Athens

“The best way out is always through.”
-Robert Frost

“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
-Robert Green Ingersoll

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier – not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability has increased.”
-Emerson

“It is what a min thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”
-Elbert Hubbard