We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Every intention is a trigger for transformation.
