The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

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 victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

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

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Unless above himself he can erect himself, how poor a thing is man!

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

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

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.