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
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
How long should you try? Until.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
United we stand; divided we fall.
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.