Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Do not dwell in the past, for your future needs you. Your past does not.

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Everything will be OK in the end, if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Look at your own experiences; your bliss from success never lasts, nor does your misery from failure

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.