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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

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.

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

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

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

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.