Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
The man with no imagination has no wings.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?