An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

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

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

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

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

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

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

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

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

Time makes more converts than reason.

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

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

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