“Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.”

“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”

“The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.”

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.”

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

“Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve… and as you keep at it until you have achieved.”

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”

“The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it – so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.”