If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

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

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

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.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

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.