Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

What is once well done is done forever.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

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

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.

Private victories precede public victories. You can’t invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

Your income rarely exceeds your personal development.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

If something is going to affect your life, it’s best to know as much as you can about it.

When you get into a ‘tight’place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, it is then when you should never give up, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say ‘by choice’ because I have never ‘accidentally’ eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

You can do it all. Don’t ever let anyone limit you. As long as you are authentic to you, do you.