A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.

Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing.

The dead must heed them.

She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

The more sleep you get in before the clock turns midnight, the more rested you feel no matter what time your alarm goes off.

I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.