Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

It always seems impossible until it's done.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.