If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

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

There is always room at the top.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.