The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
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.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
The time is always right to do the right thing
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
