Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.