Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

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

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

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

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.