One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

Aloha is free.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it, and then it’s gone. But to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that’s more terrible than dying—more terrible than dying young.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?

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.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Impossible is just an opinion.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control. The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Action expresses priorities.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.