Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia.

Truly, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.

The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity