Human Nature

"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us."

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively…"

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."

"It's always too early to quit."

"The English have taught us that we were not one nation before and that it will require centuries before we become one nation. This is without foundation. We were one nation before they came to India. …"

"To begin an affair of that kind now, and carry it on so long a time in form, is by no means a proper plan ... whatever assurances I may give her in private of my esteem for her, or whatever assurances…"

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"

"The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If…"

"Remember that time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labor, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, oug…"

"If you would keep your Secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."

"As a day well spent makes sleep seem pleasant, so a life well employed makes death pleasant. A life well spent is long."