To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

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.

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

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

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 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.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

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

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

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.

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.

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.