“Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.”

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

Kindness will always attract kindness.

The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Opportunity has power over all things.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won’t forget the place I came from.

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

It’s not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.