If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution—certainly would if such a right were a vital one.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

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

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.