Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
War is ninety percent information.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
