Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.