All wealth is the product of labor.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.