Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

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.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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...

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.