Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didnt think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. – Arnold Schwarzenegger