The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

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.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Moral virtue is the child of habit.

It is a hard thing to leave any deeply routined life, even if you hate it.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

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.