Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Aloha is free.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.