The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
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.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
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.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
