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

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.