Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
They alone live, who live for others.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.