Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

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

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.