Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical