To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

The most effective way to do it is to do it.

Your ability to maintain a positive and optimistic attitude in the face of adversity enables you to overcome obstacles and achieve success.

You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.