“The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.”
“Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
“I never waste time looking back.”
“We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”
“Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a ‘success.”
“No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.”
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”
“Life is like a parachute jump, you’ve got to get it right the first time.”
“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
“Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.”
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“Courage is exhilarating.”
“Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.”
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
“Choose a challenge instead of competence.”
“All of life is a constant education.”
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”
“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”
“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.”
“Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.”
“If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.”
“When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”
