You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
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.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Be happy, but never satisfied.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
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.