In most cases, it takes only a few minor adjustments to dramatically improve performance.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

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.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.