A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

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.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspire others.

The two qualities that chiefly inspire regard and affection [are] that a thing is you own and that it is your only one.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

A leader's greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.