We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.