The only way to have a friend is to be one.
A great man is always willing to be little.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Every artist was first an amateur.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
You become what you think about all day long.
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.