When you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

Like a team of specialists in any field, our performance depended both on individual excellence and on how well we worked together...We all tried to figure out ways to make our combination more effective

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies by their intentions, rather than their results.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

I do the best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity—intellect and resources—to do something about them.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

The government is good for one thing... it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say 'see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

We become what we think about.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

On Forgiveness: 'It is the attribute of the strong.’

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

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

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

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

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices, that makes government necessary.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Wear your failure as a badge of honor.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Competition rarely puts anyone out of business - a man usually puts himself out of business either by not making a good article or by wrong methods in sales or finance.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance.