I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
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.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
