Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
Always do what you are afraid to do.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.