Courage and Strength

What one great thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Winners make it happen. Losers let it happen.

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.

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.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

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.

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

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

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?

He said he would be willing to subscribe to the idea to resist force with force. Because he said otherwise it's like trying to cure a sick tribe of people. You try to cure them, in a way it is too slow. By the time you cure them with pacifism, they're all dead. That's not very efficient.

The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. In deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.

A timely utterance gave that thought relief,

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew … Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

‘Shoot, if you must, this old grey head,

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra.