Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Think like a wise man, but express yourself like the common people.

I am completely discouraged. I am mortally tired, but I must continue the struggle, for I know that if I turn my back on Paris I shall have to put my music aside and seek a trade by which to earn my daily bread.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

If you ask what is most important to a tree, everyone will say it is the fruit. But in reality, it is the seed.

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Information is not knowledge.

Scientists still do not appear to understand that all earth sciences must contribute evidence toward unveiling the state of our planet.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself.

Find purpose, the means will follow.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.

Think like an active person and behave like a thoughtful person.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

I want to paint the way a bird sings.

My homeland is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Without haste, but without rest.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if you spend your whole life unraveling it, don't say that you've wasted time.