The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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

Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours.”

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.”

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.”

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist.”

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.”

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.”

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.”

You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

 “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

Be confident, not certain.”

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying attention to you.”

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

Life is like a parachute jump—you’ve got to get it right the first time.”

If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

All of life is a constant education.”

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”

When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage to stand alone and be counted.”

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”

A woman is like a teabag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

It is a brave thing to have the courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.”

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

It is not more vacation we need—it is more vocation.”

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."

The giving of love is an education in itself."

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

All of life is a constant education.”

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”All of life is a constant education.”

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously."

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

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 . All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney