Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

It is stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.

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.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

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

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.

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.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

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

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

The heart's earnest and pure desire is always fulfilled.