If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.