"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."

"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."

"You become what you think about all day long."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find."

"Imitation is suicide."

"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."

"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."