People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Ideas come from everything
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.