Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

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.

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

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

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

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

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.