It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

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

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

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.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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

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.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

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

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

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.

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.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.