We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

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.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

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

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.