Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

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 greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

There is always room at the top.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

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

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.