To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
You never know what motivates you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.