I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.

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.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.

Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue who says my hand a needle better fits.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

You need to keep reminding yourself that you are a Divine piece of God. Feeling as if you're unworthy of God's abundance is the same as denying your spiritual essence.

I believe in anything that works.