Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

United we stand; divided we fall.

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

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.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

All thinking men are atheists.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.