Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

Faith in yourself matters.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.