1. 1. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
2. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
3. If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
4. Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us
which needs to be ignited with sparks.
5. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden
behind us.
6. Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
7. Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
8. You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
9. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
10. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
11. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
12. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
13. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
14. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
15. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
16. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
17. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
18. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
19. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.
20. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
21. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
22. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
23. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
24. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

2. 25. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
26. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
27. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
28. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
29. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
30. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
31. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.