The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.