There's only one way to succeed at anything and that is to give everything.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Impossible is just an opinion.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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%.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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

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.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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.

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

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

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.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

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

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

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.

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.”

A winner never taught me how to quit.