One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

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

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

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

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Action expresses priorities.

One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

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

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.