It really is true that you are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind, and you can change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

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.

If everything in this world was in constant decay, why expend so much energy gnashing my teeth over work?

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

I do not have an act. I just do Eartha Kitt... I want to be whoever Eartha Kitt is until the gods take me wherever they take me.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

She's still doing it, pushing me into situations I can't handle, making me cope. She knows I can't cope.

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists and the only place where it develops.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.