Echoes

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement and success have no meaning.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, because time has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

The quality I look for most is optimism: especially optimism in the face of reverses and apparent defeat.