Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
No self-respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party who ignores her sex.
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
He conquers who endures.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.
Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.
We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
I’m lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the credit for my success as I do for the hard work we have all put in on the training ground.
Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
Someone may ask, ‘How is justice greater than all the other virtues?’ The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Usually, the loudest in the room is the weakes. The quietest man in the room, who is being very observant, is the smartest and the strongest.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.