If you are five minutes early, you are already ten minutes late.
There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of lack of ambition.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who had practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Boredom is one of the most blissful feelings.
It is better to serve like steel than rust and wither away like iron.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment
No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.
At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic
The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.