Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

One man with courage is a majority.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.