(As a teenager, I found these quotes quite inspiring. I’ve rarely thought about them for the last 5+ years. But that might just be because the ideas that they express are now sufficiently absorbed into my mindset that it doesn’t seem necessary to think about the quotes anymore.)
“Be as you wish to seem”—attributed to Socrates by the sorts of sources whose quote attributions I don’t trust
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”—perhaps Arleen Lorrance (perhaps influenced by an statement from Gandhi)
(As a teenager, I found these quotes quite inspiring. I’ve rarely thought about them for the last 5+ years. But that might just be because the ideas that they express are now sufficiently absorbed into my mindset that it doesn’t seem necessary to think about the quotes anymore.)