Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

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

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

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