You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]