What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Living well is the best revenge.

Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

All knowledge is precious, whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

There are no failures in life: only learning opportunities.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

From a small seed, a mighty trunk may grow.

People fall forward to success.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastering a subject.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Research is creating new knowledge.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.