Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

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.

Action expresses priorities.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

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

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.