We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but can't bring it to achievement.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.