Motivational Status in English

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'Tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.