Don't give up what you want most, for what you want now.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

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

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

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

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

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

The things which . . . are esteemed as the greatest good of all . . . can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

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.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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.