A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

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.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.