“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.”

“You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole wide world. There never has been, there never will be. You were brought here now to fill a certain need. Take time to think that over.”

“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.”

“When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.”

“Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”

“Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.”

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.”

“Life means to have something definite to do—a mission to fulfilled—and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.”

“Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.”

“There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.”

“By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life. ”

“As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?”

“Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.”

“The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.”

“Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.”

“I am a part of all that I have met.”

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

“Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.”

“I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. ”

“Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ”

“Therefore hold to the things which are reliable. Look to simplicity; embrace purity; Lessen the self; diminish desire. ”

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”

“When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.”

“Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble. ”

“A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled.”

“Example has more followers than reason.”

“What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.”

“When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.”