Learn Through Quotations

“The individual woman is required... a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow an independent line of behavior and rescue her self-respect out of the wreckage of her good disposition.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“The ultimate folly is to think that something crucial to your welfare is being taken care of for you.”

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”

“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ”

“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.”

“To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.”

“Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.”

“If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.”

“All men are self-made, but only the successful will admit it.”

“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”

“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.”

“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”

“A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.”

“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”

“My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.”

“It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”

“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”