When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
You got to get it while you can.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
