Belief in self supersedes criticism from others.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

All limitations are self-imposed.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failings than to point out those of others.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.