"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced."
"We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.”
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.”
“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.”
