"Amicus fidelis, protectio fortis: qui autem invenit illum, invenit thesaurum."

"Amigos son los que en las prosperidades acuden al ser llamados y en las adversidades sin serlo"

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what
one receives.

If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

"Todo el mundo desea tener un buen amigo, un amigo leal abnegado,
de absoluta confianza; pocos se preocupan por serlo."

You don't just luck into things. You build them step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.

Recuerda que el no conseguir lo que quieres es, a veces, un golpe de suerte.

You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it

Every winner has scars.

Truth alone wounds.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.

The more you know the less you need to say.

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

When someone gives the hospital a gift of $5 and you know he can afford less than that, thank him graciously. When someone gives the hospital $5,000 and you know he could afford five times that, say, "that will help."

Aprende las reglas... así sabrás como romperlas apropiadamente.

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Juzga tu éxito en la medida de lo que tuviste que renunciar para obtenerlo.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be achieved.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

The most important things in the world aren't things.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

Corolario 1: siempre puede.

Corollary 3: At the most inopportune time

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

There are hundreds of languages in the world but a smile speaks them all.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

"No somos responsables de la cara que tenemos, pero si de la cara que ponemos"

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

"you need to frighten people with - to prevent them from paying attention to what's really happening to them"

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocreminds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted.

Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel, well, if I give this enough time, it'll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn't worry about it too much.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

There comes a moment when you realize that virtually anything is possible- that nothing is too good to be true.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who without a dream.

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead wins the race.

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

What you are will show in what you do.

We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

A los muertos no les importa como son sus funerales. Las exequias suntuosas sirven para satisfacer la vanidad de los vivos.

El amor propio y la vanidad nos hacen creer que nuestros vicios son virtudes y nuestras virtudes, vicios.

The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator.

Yo escojo a mis enemigos y puedo decir que no hay ninguno que sea tonto, por lo tanto, todos son dignos de mí. ¿Será acaso esto mucha vanidad de mi parte?

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.

If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the
neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cried and you rejoice.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.