Every man is where he is and what he is because of his establish habits of thoughts and deeds.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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.

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Impossible is just an opinion.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

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.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

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

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

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

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

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

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

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.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

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.