Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

It's not about being the best. It's about being better than you were yesterday.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.

Kindness is power.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Great things never came from comfort zones.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Opportunities don't happen. You create them.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

The view from the top is only possible because of the climb.

In a world where you can be anything, be kind.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

A small match can light a huge fire.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Your only limit is you.

Fortune favors the bold.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Every end is a new beginning.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Where your heart is, there is your treasure also.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

The best road to progress is the freedom's road.

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude.

Greatness lives in the edge of destruction.

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.

Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things will be drawn to you.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

The difficult is what takes a little name; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

The only way to find your own path is to stop following someone else's.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Be so good they can't ignore you.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it.