“Success Should Never Breed Complacency.”

Self-confidence should always ride side by side with a strong sense of humility.

I will choosing to die rather than to remain alive without freedom and beg, as an alternative to death, a vastly inferior life.

Obedience Should Not Be the Result of Compulsion.

He had put on the best-looking uniform that he could, thinking that, victory deserved the best-looking armour.

And in general, every ordinance made without the consent of those who are to obey it, is a violence rather than a law.

Let No One Fall Idle.

In the Face of Danger, Be Eager, Not Intimidated.

Anyone who imprisoned people on the ground of ignorance might fairly be confined himself by those who understood what he did not.

It is better said Socrates, to change an Opinion, than to persist in a wrong one.

We call a Man ungrateful, answered who having received a kindness, does not return the like, if occasion off ere.

Perhaps their attacks on my character meant that the hour was ripe for my career to begin in earnest.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

Your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously.

When a horse wants to display himself, he lifts his neck up high and flexes his poll haughtily, and picks his legs up freely, and keeps his tail up.

You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.

I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.

The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.