It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man who says the oath.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.