To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.