Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

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

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.