"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. "
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. "
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. "
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."