You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

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

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owning more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

True strength lies in gentleness.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.