Booker T. Washington on success

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

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