Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Recommended reading: The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Recommended reading: Lincoln.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

Recommended reading: The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Recommended reading: Margaret Thatcher: The Autobiography.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Recommended reading: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Recommended reading: Selected Letters of James Joyce.

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Recommended reading: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life.

What some might call the restrictions of the daily office they find to be an opportunity to foster the inner life. The hours are appointed and named… Life’s fretfulness is transcended. The different and the novel are sweet, but regularity and repetition are also teachers… And if you have no ceremony, no habits, which may be opulent or may be simple but are exact and rigorous and familiar, how can you reach toward the actuality of faith, or even a moral life, except vaguely? The patterns of our lives reveal us. Our habits measure us. Our battles with our habits speak of dreams yet to become real.

Recommended reading: Long Life. 

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Recommended reading: Mere Christianity.

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.

Recommended reading: A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh.