You have brains in your head. You have feed in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

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.

Impossible is just an opinion.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

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 don’t choose to be role models; we are chosen. Our only choice is whether to be a good role model or a bad one.

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

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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%.

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.

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

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

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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.

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

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

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

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

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

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

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

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

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

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.