You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.