The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.