Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?
It is crucial to make the right decision at the right time.
Be solution focused.
Ability teaches us how to do, motivation determines why we do, and attitude decides how well we do.
A person with a positive attitude is like a fruit for all seasons.
If you think you can – you can. If you think you can not – you can not. And either way, you are right.
Winners don’t do different things. They do things differently.
Leadership is about persuasion, presentation, and people skills.
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
What most counts is not merely to live, but to live right.
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
Wisest is he who knows he knows not.
The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.
Follow the argument wherever it leads.