If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished – mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out.
The whole point is to discipline the mind.
I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
The past does not equal the future.
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you’re going to perform, you’ve already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.
You can take away my wife, you can take away my children, you can strip me of my clothes and my freedom, but there is one thing no person can ever take away from me – and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to what happens to me!
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.