The only limit is our limit of our capacity to receive.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

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.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Impossible is just an opinion.

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.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

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

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others.

If you can allow yourself to trust those little movements round your gut that tell you when something is interesting or exciting, they will tell you where to go.