The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Make today worth remembering.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

You shape your own destiny.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.