A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.
A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.
There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man’s worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.
Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.
You cannot travel within and stand still without.
We do not attract what we want, But what we are.
Good thoughts bear good fruit...
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp – with remembrance of Virginia, with remembrance of dear ancestral Britain.
The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.
I have yet to encounter that common myth of weak men, an insurmountable barrier.
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.
I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, ‘Let’s terminate human spaceflight.’
I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.