Whatever you steadfastly direct your attention to, will come into your life and dominate it.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.