Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.