Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

When I give, I give myself.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.