In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

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

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.