"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is great danger."

"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."

"When it is obvious that the goals can't be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

"A superior man is modest in this speech but exceeds in his actions."

"Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it."

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"If you plan is for 1 year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees. If your plan is for 100 years, educate children."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."

"Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory."

"Regard your soldiers as your children and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons and they will stand by you even unto death."

"He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight."

"Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance."

"A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame."

"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy."

"The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then wait for an opportunity of defeating the enemy."

"Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"Genius is one percent of inspiration and ninety-nice percent of perspiration."

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility and utility is success."

"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control."