Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.