People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
I am the captain of my soul.