I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.

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

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.

Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

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

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

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

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

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

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

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

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

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.

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