It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Know thyself.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.