"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times."

"When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously."

"When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him."

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure"

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

"Don't take tomorrow to bed with you."

"Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once."

"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

"You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction."

"Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you."

"Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do"

"There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

"Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much."

"I really believe kids want to do well. It's a coach's job to create an environment for them to be successful."

"Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them."

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

"It's always too early to quit."

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

"Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them."

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."

"We tend to get what we expect."

"If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal."

"Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong"

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

"You would think that economy would be one of the easiest habits in the world to break but it isn't."

"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."

"Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle."

"Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm"

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

"Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism."

"Live your life and forget your age."

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched."

"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."

"[Oxford] whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

"what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."

"Eyes too expressive to be blue, / Too lovely to be grey."

"Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing."

"Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit."

"Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances."

"(Poetry) a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty"

"I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world."

"Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare."

"Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things."

"Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty."

"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."