We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

There is a vast difference between failure and temporary defeat.

Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.