Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

All thinking men are atheists.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You got to get it while you can.