A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

The time is always right to do the right thing

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.