Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers to disregard the materiality of power relations.

Too pretty, dreamlike mimicry!O falling fire and piercing cryand panic, and a weak mailed fistclenched ignorant against the sky!

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

Faith is letting down our nets into the transparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall draw.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.