If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

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

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

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.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

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

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.

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

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

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.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

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.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Work is love made visible.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.