Life always gets harder toward the summit—the cold increases, responsibility increases.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

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

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.