However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

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

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.