Horace Mann

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

When you do more than you’re paid for. Eventually, you’ll be paid for more than you do.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Dream big and kick ass.

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.

I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die.

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, ‘I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday’, that person cannot say, ‘I choose otherwise’.