Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.