Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
