Action expresses priorities.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

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.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

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

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.