“Watch your actions, they become your habits.”

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Men argue. Nature acts.

A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first.

That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Never confuse Motion with Action.