It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start to go right they often go on getting better and better.
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
And so I [...] kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.