Less than your best

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

-Steve Prefontaine

Better to be Bold

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.  -Machiavelli

Say What You Feel

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

Human Stupidity

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

Be yourself

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde