Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.