Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.