James Stewart

"I'm no hero. I put on my pants one leg at a time, just like everyone else."

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

"All that matters is that today you are a better person than you were yesterday."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

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

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."