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

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

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.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Love, because when you love, you are using the greatest power in the Universe.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

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.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined…

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If your attitude toward the world is good, you will obtain good results. If your attitude is excellent, excellent will your results.