Society and the World

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

Our bodies are our gardens... our wills are gardeners.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot do.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.