Storms make trees take deeper roots.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
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 is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.