“Decide where you are going and how you are to get there. Then make a start from where you now stand.”

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it.

All you are or ever shall become is the result of the use to which you put your mind.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.

Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.

Success is knowing what you’re doing, loving what you’re doing, and believing what you’re doing.

To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

You can’t change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It’s not what you are going to do, but it’s what you are doing now that counts.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

I am 67, but I’m not too old to make a fresh start.