Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Recommended reading: The Basic Works of Aristotle.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Recommended reading: Walden.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Recommended reading: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Recommended reading: Think and Grow Rich.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Recommended reading: God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Recommended reading: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Recommended reading: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Recommended reading: Beyond Good and Evil.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Recommended reading: Man and His Symbols.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Recommended reading: Atlas Shrugged.