Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
Ideas come from everything
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
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.
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.