David Ben-Gurion

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things."

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

"Silence is a source of great strength."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"The only impossible thing is the thing you believe is impossible."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

"What a man thinks about himself and his future, he will, in fact become."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"The only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing."

"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"The only way to do great things is to love what you do."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"The question is not what you're looking at. It is what you see."

"Knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."

"The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed."

"Whether you think you're right or you're wrong, you're right."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"The only thing in life that will always remain the same is change itself."

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."