“Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.”

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it temporary defeat.

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

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.

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

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

I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

We were a short lived anthology of things no one else could read.

We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

You don’t realize what fine fighting material there is in age. You show me any one who’s lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter – someone who’s got the will to live.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?