Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

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

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.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

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

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

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.

What you are is what you have been. What you will be is what you do now.