“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”
“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose-somehow we win out.”
“It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.”
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”
“Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
“In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
“The future depends on what you do today.”
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
