In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Irrevocable commitments that offer loopholes, not bail-out provisions, and no parachute clauses will extract incredible productivity and performance.

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.

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

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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.

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

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

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

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

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.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

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.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.