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.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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.

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

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

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.

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

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

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

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

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.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

The planet does not need more “successful people.” The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The man who earns a million, but destroys his health in the process is not really a success.

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

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.

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.

Vision without execution is hallucination.