Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

If you had one goal, and that was to feel good, you would never again need to hear another word from anyone. You would live successfully and happily and in a way of fulfilling your life’s purpose ever after.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.