Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

What I stand for is what I stand 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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

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

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

When I give, I give myself.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

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