We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Be as you wish to seem.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
