Emotions and Feelings

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Plan your work and work your plan.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

At first glance, his greatest contribution, the League of Nations, appears to have failed. Still, despite the fact that the League was crippled by his contemporaries and rejected by his own country, I have no doubt that Wilson’s work will one day emerge in more effective form.

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him… He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

I do not believe Mme. Curie is power-hungry or hungry for whatever. She is an unpretentious, honest person with more than her share of responsibilities and burdens. She has a sparkling intelligence, but despite her passionate nature she is not attractive enough to present a danger to anyone.

When the Nazis came into power, Einstein I think was faced with a dilemma. Should he continue with his pacifism, or should he do what he could to resist the Nazis in their effort to get control of the whole world?

Although he knew who he was; although he was aware of his celebrity, he always took it with humor and always laughed at it and at himself.