Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

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.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

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

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

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.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.