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.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Above all things, respect yourself.