Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

When I give, I give myself.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

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.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be