Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

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

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.