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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Sep 10, 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
The harder I work the more I live.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Do your best with what you have where you are.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Never mistake activity for achievement.
It's amazing what you can accomplish if you simply refuse to quit.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Begin with the end in mind.
Well done is better than well said.
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.