Adversity delivers the choice of opportunity.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

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

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

We are our choices.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

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.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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

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.

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

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

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

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.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.