You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

One would think it would be most unwise in a man to be afraid of a skeleton, since Nature has set curious and quite insuperable obstacles to his running away from it.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Appearance rules the world.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Benevolence is man’s mind, and righteousness is man’s path.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.