You pass the test when you do what you say.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Aloha is free.

One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

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.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

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.