If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

All thinking men are atheists.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

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

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.