"Remember where you have been and know where you are going"

"If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life."

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."

"Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

"People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. The went out and happened to things"

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do"

"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come"

"When one door of opportunity closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us"

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone"

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed"

"Happiness is not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got"

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up"

"Take the most difficult challenge you are now facing and turn it into the greatest opportunity to grow simply by changing how you see it. Dead ends then become turning points."