A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

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

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

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

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.