It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

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.

Our thoughts create our future.

The more we read, the more we discover.

Always you can find what you want, if you search enough times.

Spiritual life doesn't make you a good person; you ARE a good person, you are a holy being when you are born. What spiritual life does is remind us that this is who we really are.

More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

I don’t make my kids say I’m their favorite star.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

Occasionally, in times of worry, I've longed to be stylish, but on second thought I say no-just let me be myself-and express rough, yet true things with rough workmanship.