“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”

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.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Live each day as if it were your last, and you’ll develop a keen respect for opportunity.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another until you succeed.

You become what you think about.

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

When opportunity came, the person didn’t realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.

A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.

Achievement has no color.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

There seems to be an attitude problem, as if we cannot shake ourselves out of a mindset of limited achievement.

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.