When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

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

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

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

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

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

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.