The solution to chaos is order.

What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

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.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

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

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

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.