Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the darn ship in. - Lou Holtz

Never let the things you can't do, stop you from doing what you can.

If you think you can - you can!

It is up to us in our time to choose, and choose wisely, between the hard but necessary task of preserving peace and freedom, and the temptation to ignore our duty and blindly hope for the best while the enemies of freedom grow stronger day by day.

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be ; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve .

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.