“Nothing that is really good and admirable is granted by the gods to men without some effort and application.”

The man who doesn’t know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.

Anything forced is not beautiful.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Let Your Tools Be Equal to the Task.

Whether in industry or in politics, leaders should be building a new, more flexible order for the imperiled generations to come.

We’re all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

It is no disgrace but honorable rather to steal, except such things as the law forbids.

I am a stranger in all countries.

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation.

Most people, when they are set upon looking into other people’s affairs, never turn to examine themselves.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

People often say what is right and do what is wrong; but nobody can be in the wrong if he is doing what is right.

Success Should Never Breed Complacency.

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

Battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

No one is given time to spend on what they love, they take it.

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they’re doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

It takes a lot of effort to care.

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.

America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.