The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

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.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Above all things, respect yourself.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.