Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
He that can have patience can have what he will.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
We're lost, but we're making good time
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
