Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
They alone live, who live for others.
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.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
One man with courage is a majority.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.