May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

We are our choices.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

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

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

While there's life, there's hope.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

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.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.