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

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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

Action expresses priorities.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.