The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
What I stand for is what I stand on.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Make today worth remembering.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
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.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.