No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
They alone live, who live for others.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
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.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.