Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it: Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
To create something you must be something.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Love gives us in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can conceive.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
