We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

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.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.