“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”

Without accumulating little steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without gathering little streams, one cannot form a river or a sea.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.