Echoes

My life is my message.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Go forth in virtue!

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid being seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.