Your focus determines your experience.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

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

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

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

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

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

No garden is without its weeds.

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

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.