Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
If your sole focus is money, you may create a successful startup. But if it’s impact, you can probably create history.
The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
The world is not changed by people who sort of care.
When you get to a place where you don’t go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Failure is success if we learn from it.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.