It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.