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It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; If I persist long enough I will win.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Attack is the best defence.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.


We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.