“What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?”

Only I can let you disrepect me!

All of life is a constant education.

Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Great minds talk about ideas; small minds talk about people.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!

The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is an accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

When you put good will out there, it’s amazing what can be accomplished.

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.