“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine”

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Our entire biological system, the brain, and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.

My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

For leaders, the humility to admit and own mistakes and develop a plan to overcome them is essential to success. The best leaders are not driven by ego or personal agendas. They are simply focused on the mission and how best to accomplish it.

Without loyalty, you won’t accomplish anything.

We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

All elements within the greater team are crucial and must work together to accomplish the mission, mutually supporting one another for that singular purpose.

In order to convince and inspire others to follow and accomplish a mission, a leader must be a true believer in the mission.

Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.