You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

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.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.