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

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.