Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.