Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Time wounds all heels.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
I think, therefore I am.