1. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

2. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

3. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

4. “I would rather be a little nobody, then to be an evil somebody.”

5. “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”

6. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

7. “I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

8. “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

9. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

10. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

11. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

12. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

13. “I would rather be assassinated than to be dishonest in my duty.”

14. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

15. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

16. “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

17. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

18. “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

19. “I will study and prepare myself, and someday my opportunity will come.”

20. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”