Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.