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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I am the captain of my soul.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.