The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

All thinking men are atheists.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Aim for the highest.

There is always room at the top.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.