I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

It's always too early to quit.

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.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.