You choose your path.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

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.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

We are our choices.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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

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

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.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

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

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.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

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.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

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.

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.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.