Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Recommended reading: Pragmatism and Other Writings.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Recommended reading: Thomas Jefferson.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Recommended reading: Einstein: His Life and Universe.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Recommended reading: The Basic Works of Aristotle.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Recommended reading: Steve Jobs.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Recommended reading: Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Recommended reading: The Fun Of It.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Recommended reading: Einstein: His Life and Universe.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Recommended reading: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Recommended reading: Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time.