All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.
- Michelle Obama


Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
- Michael Jordan


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius


Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford


I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln


I felt I came in and gave it my best shot and I still wanted to play. It didn't happen. I am still going to hold my head high and stay positive.
- Jerry Rice


I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
- Michael Jordan


I've never been afraid to fail.
- Michael Jordan


If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
- Michael Jordan


If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
- Tiger Woods


If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
- Colin Powell


If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan


It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
- Colin Powell


Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
- Walt Disney


My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
- Michael Jordan


Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
- Colin Powell


The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln


We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
- Walt Disney


When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln


When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- Confucius


Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
- Ben Franklin


You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
- Joseph Campbell