You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
