Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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?
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
