When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

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

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.