The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
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.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
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.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
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.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
