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.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
