My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
They alone live, who live for others.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
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
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
All wealth is the product of labor.