An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.