Famous Quotes

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance"

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."

"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there."

"I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way."

"In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk."

"The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today."

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for."

"Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know."

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

"...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run."

"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."

"We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!"

"Nothing will work unless you do."

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."