Vaclav Havel

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

I’m really clear about what my life mission is now. There’s no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I’ve returned to the athlete I once was. I’m integrating all the parts of me – jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher – and becoming stronger as a result.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Feeling is more important than thought.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.

Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Everyone deserves an equal chance at success.