Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

It does not take a majority of prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

Fear gives intelligence even to fools.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

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

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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

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.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

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.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.