A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
What I stand for is what I stand on.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
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.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
