I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Know thyself.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
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.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.