Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

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.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

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

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.