Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
You are what you believe yourself to be.
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
All great achievements require time.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.