If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.