I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

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.

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

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.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

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.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.