Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

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.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.