You ascend when you see a problem as an opportunity.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

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.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A leader's greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

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.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.