Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Well done is better than well said.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
There are three faithful friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
energy and persistence conquers all things
Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
You may delay, but time will not.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Lost time is never found again.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
The things which hurt, instruct.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Little strokes, fell great oaks.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Read much, but not many books.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
An old young man, will be a young old man.
Honesty is the best policy.