If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

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An unexamined life is not worth living. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

Change your thoughts and you change your world. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.

Change your thoughts and you change your world. The best revenge is massive success. Eighty percent of success is showing up. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. The best revenge is massive success. Eighty percent of success is showing up. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. You become what you believe.

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. An unexamined life is not worth living. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. An unexamined life is not worth living. Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism.

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. The best revenge is massive success. Dream big and dare to fail. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Believe you can and you're halfway there. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. Fall seven times and stand up eight. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that's where it's at. 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.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. 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.