Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
