Everything worth having has a definite price.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

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

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

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

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.

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

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

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

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.