Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Nothing’s ever easy as long as you go on living.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.