Quotes I've found interesting

Don't just say that you have read books.  Show that through them you have learned to think better.

Epictetus  

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion,   Slouching Towards Bethlehem

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Marcus Aurelius  

Life without design is erratic.

Seneca  

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion.

Brandon Sanderson,   Mistborn

You can also commit injustice by doing nothing.

Marcus Aurelius  

Your heart will whisper to you. Your conscience will guide you. Your truth will reveal itself.

Terry Brooks,   The Last Druid

You also have a duty to your future self to release the project. Every time you don't release a project, you're telling yourself that you’re the kind of person who doesn't ship. Tell yourself that enough, and you'll start to believe it. Trust me, it's hard to unwind. Possible! But hard.

Aaron Francis,   The ReadME Project

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London  

You stand as you always have.  A good man does what he must.

Kore,   Spartacus, s04e10