Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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.
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A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.
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You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
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.
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.