“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

We make war that we may live in peace.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Change in all things is sweet.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.

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

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Whatever lies within our power to do lies also within our power not to do.

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Through discipline comes freedom.

Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.

Whatever you determine to be right, with diligence endeavour to perform.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

To be is to do.

The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.

I’m a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.