Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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.

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

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.