Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.