The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.