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

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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

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

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

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

Action expresses priorities.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

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

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

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.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.