General Quotes

“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”

“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”

“Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.”

“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”