Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.