Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.
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
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.