Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Never mistake motion for action.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I think we need more idiot control.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Nothing endures but change.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Life must be lived as play.