The mouth does not eat if the feet do not walk and the hands work.

Vision without execution is hallucination.

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

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

Work is love made visible.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

The perils of overwork are slight compared to the dangers of inactivity.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.