Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.