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

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.