Society and the World

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me." And then you have found that attitude, follow it.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your own experience or convictions.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual, everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

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.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

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.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

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.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.