Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.
It is your friends who make your world.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, “This is the real me!”
My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
Effort is a measure of a Man.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.