You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

We are our choices.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution; it represents the wide choice of many alternatives.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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

Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.