Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

A right delayed is a right denied.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

I don’t think I get angry.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren’t characters I looked up to and identified with.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

What we think, we become.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

I give opinions, not advice.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

To create something you must be something.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.