So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

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.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

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

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.