One characteristic of a winner is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

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

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.