Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Be yourself, let you come through.

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

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.