Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

No garden is without its weeds.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

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

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

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.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

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

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Factual evidence can never “prove” a hypothesis; it can only fail to disprove it, which is what we generally mean when we say, somewhat inexactly, that the hypothesis is “confirmed” by experience.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

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

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.