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

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

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

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

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

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.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.