Andrew Carnegie

"All honor to those who can aid in lifting their fellows to a higher plane of thought and action."

"I have always believed that it is the duty of every citizen to keep the laws of his country; but I believe also that it is sometimes the highest duty of a citizen to break certain laws which he believes to be unjust."

"In these days, when the intensity of life, mental and physical, is constantly on the increase, it becomes a matter of great importance to find relief in change of occupation."

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

"Employ your time so well that you will be ready when your opportunity comes."

"Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately."

"Wishing will not make a poor man rich."

"All that mankind has accomplished has been achieved by the free individual, and that achievement is the total of all individual achievements."

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desire."

"Peace will come to earth when the people have a choice between going to war and going to the movies."

"The person who says it is impossible should not interfere with the person doing it."

"The most constant of all virtues is justice."

"Self-respect stands upon this ground of principle, not upon the flattery of mankind."

"There is positively no more influential factor in the world's advance than that of the inventor."

"Be King and Peasant! know one and the same, all men are human, all subject to one law."

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"The first duty of a man is to civilization, which is to respect public opinion."

"There is no use whatsoever trying to help people who do not help themselves."

"It is strictly up to each of us to decide what we want most and to pay the price to get it."

"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

"The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race, colour, or previous condition."

"All the world's a stage, and all its men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts."

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it."

"Do not look for absolution of your sins on this earth. It is not to be found here."

"The qualities that make a man great usually destroy him."

"Most of the millionaires I have known have been shrewd men, but few have been scholars."

"To have an income to begin with is the sole thing necessary to commence the accumulation of wealth."

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."

"The man that has begun to live more seriously within may be said to have commenced his real existence."