History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it….
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Nothing is to be preferred before justice.
Courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
For knowledge itself is power.
