Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

You shape your own destiny.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.