Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, and live the life you imagined.

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.

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

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

When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

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

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.

Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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 raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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

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.

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

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

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.