Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue read more

Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.

You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, have read more

You can have anything you want-if you want it badly enough. You can be
anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you
set out to accomplish-if you will hold to that desire with singleness of
purpose.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It read more

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered read more

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Nothing recedes like success.

Nothing recedes like success.

Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.

Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other
discipline to impose, if we would read more

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other
discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life
unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away
from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the
end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy,
and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for
him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course read more

People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of
rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the
stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.