Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

One man with courage is a majority.

You got to get it while you can.