Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

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

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.