A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

If I can be a leader, I will.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

I think I’ve got wiser.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

If you deserve it, go get it.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

We should all start to live before we get too old.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.