Herbert Spencer

"Leadership is the capacity to inspire others to act on their highest principles."

"The world improves through the efforts of ordinary people doing extraordinary things."

"Every person has the potential for greatness if properly developed."

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

"Gratitude is the mark of a noble character."

"The deepest satisfaction comes from contributing to something larger than oneself."

"Understanding precedes judgment and judgment must precede action."

"The measure of civilization is how it treats its weakest members."

"Each person is responsible for the world they help create."

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

"Progress is not an accident but a necessity."

"The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God."

"Science is organized knowledge."

"Survival of the fittest applies to ideas as well as organisms."

"Every man is to take care of himself, and in doing so he subserves the welfare of all."

"The one thing required is that we should recognize and respect each other's liberty."

"Unlimited gratification of every desire is the road to misery."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

"Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity."

"Morality can be neither created nor destroyed, but only modified in form."

"Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another."

"The history of science is a record of discarded theories."

"To be a power in the world, one must act with power."

"Civilization is the establishment of property."

"There cannot be a successful democracy unless men dedicate themselves to truth."

"The wise man doesn't give the right answer, he possesses the right insights."

"All evil results from the want of thought."

"Time is the great test."

"Doing always beats thinking about doing."

"The capacity for happiness is already in you."