Great Throughts Treasury

"You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package to be successful."

"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "yes you can do it" when things are tough."

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!""

"The richness of life; the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It is cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner."

"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

"Life . . . It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations."

"The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do."

"If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

"You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package."

"The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner."