Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Everything you can imagine is real.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

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

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

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