People believe more about your actions than your words.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

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

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

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

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.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.