To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
They alone live, who live for others.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.