Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
There's a way to do it better - find it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There is no influence like the influence of habit.
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
The time is always right to do what is right.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand--and melting like a snowflake...
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
