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

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.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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.

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

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 cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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

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

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.

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

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.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

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.

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

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

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

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

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

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best, which I believed then and believe now, is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Limitations are merely opportunities to grow. I use them as stepping stones to success.

The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it.

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.