Most of our obstacles would melt away if instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

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.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Affirmation is an internal positive statement that supports an external outcome.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

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.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

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.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.