There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve read more

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love.
There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Chance favors the prepared mind.