Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

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

One man with courage is a majority.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Know thyself.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

All wealth is the product of labor.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

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