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

They alone live, who live for others.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Make today worth remembering.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

I am the captain of my soul.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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