First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

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.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.