The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Make today worth remembering.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.