Our patience will achieve more than our force.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.