Make the urge to continue stronger than the desire to quit.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

You are the foundation of any change that will happen in your society. A student asked Thay, "There are so many urgent problems. What should I do?" Thay answered calmly, "Take one thing, and do it very deeply and carefully, and you will be doing everything at the same time." Knowing

Making an effort at the wrong time or place dissipates our energy.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.