Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
All wealth is the product of labor.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
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.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.