There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The first thing the young of all animals try to learn is to stand on their own feet.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Great men are not born great, they grow great.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
