Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed.
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but by the obstacles you’ve overcome.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
Character is power.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.