My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
I am the captain of my soul.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
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.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
