No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

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.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

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.

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

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

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.

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

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.