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

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

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

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The best way out is always through.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

We're lost, but we're making good time

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

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

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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.