I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

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

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

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

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.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

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.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

There is always room at the top.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.