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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

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

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

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

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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.

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.