Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.