A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Make today worth remembering.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.