Motivational quotes

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

From the Conclusion, offered as what he learned by the experiment rather than as advice.

There is no short road to the realization of these aspirations.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.