The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting the first one.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

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.

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

One day Alice came to fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. His response was a question: “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then, “said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.”

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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

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.

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

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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.

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

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.