Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

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.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

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

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Know thyself.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.