Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

I failed my way to success.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Things that hurt, instruct.

Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.

Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

He is able who thinks he is able.

All experience is an arch to build upon.