You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

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Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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