The characteristic of genuine heroism, is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the w World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. Give me a place to stand,' said Archimedes, and I will move the world.' These men moved the world, and so can we all."

In the faces of men and women, I see God.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

"There are two kinds of men who don't amount to much: those who can't do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

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