I will persist. I will always take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

If there are patterns of bound emotions then life will bring that to the surface as often as is needed for all feelings to now come and go naturally without any personal sense to them.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

It's really not a question of how long you have on this earth; it's about what you do with it.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.