"Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters."

"If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."

"The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment."

"If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me."

"Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love."

"The decisions of our past are the architects of our present."

"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear."

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible."

"Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals."

"He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen"

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."

"Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him."

"...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear."

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."

"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you,."

"There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance."

"The people united will never be defeated."

"There's no turning back...We will win. We are winning because ours is a revolution of mind and heart..."

"We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause."

"The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God."