"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"Find joy in the journey."
"A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you."
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in."
"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today."
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
"You’re always moving toward what you want, or moving away from what you don’t want."
"Empty pockets teach you a million things in life but full pockets spoil you in a million ways"
"The better you feel, the more you allow."
"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible."
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."
"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
"The universe does not know whether the vibration that you’re offering is because of something you’re observing or something you’re remembering or something that you are imagining. The universe simply responds to the vibration."
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
"You can't have a happy ending to an unhappy journey."
"Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Don’t wait for opportunity. Create it."
"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
“The more I try to be serious, the more I break into unnatural laughter.”
"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
"The greatest gift that you could ever give another is your own happiness."
"Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident"