Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.