Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
A human being is a deciding being.
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Poverty is... Curable like any disease. Ignorance, dependence, inefficiency, laziness, want of the spirit of enterprise are the real real causes of poverty.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Progress of mankind is progress of mind and intellect.
