Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

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

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

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.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.