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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Sep 10, 2025
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The best way out is always through.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Do one thing every day that scares you.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.