“Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.

The more one forgets one’s own self, the more human the person becomes.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

What is to give light must endure burning.

The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.

The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

End is not the end, if fact E.N.D. means Effort Never Dies.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Don’t shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him.

If you want to get things you can’t buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.

I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win.