Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Aim for the highest.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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.

There is always room at the top.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.