A thousand mile trip starts with the first step.
Once our eyes are open and Truth comes to mind, we grow to its dimensions.
Time spent getting even would be better spent getting ahead.
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall never get bent out of shape.
There is no arguing, "Have I done wrong, or have you done wrong?" All that needs to be done is right the wrong.
What happens in us is far more important than what happens to us.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Firmness with yourself will be rewarded with the feeling that you have done something healthy.
The largest room in the world is Room for Improvement.
Whatever your lot, begin to cultivate it.
The only conquest which is permanent and which leaves no regrets, is the conquest over ourselves.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The pessimist says it can't be done. The optimist says it can be done. The peptimist says "I just did it!"
It is only when you don't run from yourself that you begin to get somewhere.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You can only have two things in life. Reasons or results.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
By improving yourself, the world is made better and so are you.
Talent gives us gifts to share.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches, but from doing something worthwhile.
The impossible -- what nobody can do until somebody does it.
You cannot reach a goal if you have no goal in mind.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
If you don't change your direction, you are liable to end up where you are headed!
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
The direction we are facing has a lot to do with our destination.
Where you are is not nearly so important as the direction in which you are going.
There is no point in trying to carry the ball until you learn where the goal is.
Friends multiply our joy and divide our sorrow.
The world is now too dangerous for anything but the Truth, and too small for anything but brotherhood.
People who like others are people others like.
A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Hot words make cool friendships.