Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

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.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

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.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

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.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.