Humankind

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.