To be one with God is to be like God. Our real religious striving then, should be to become one with God; sharing with Him in our poor humble way His qualities and attributes

We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities

 Opportunities never come a second time, nor do they wait for our leisure

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

. “It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.”

“I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.”

“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”

“I will permit no man to narrow & degrade my sould by making me hate him.”

 It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges

“The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.”

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

 “My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.”

“In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.”

“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!”

 “Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient, and polite.”

“Character is power.” 

“A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.”

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” 

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.” 

“Success always leaves footprints.” 

“The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.” 

“The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.” 

“It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.” 

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon

Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

 I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. 

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. 

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

Give, even if you only have a little.