The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The time is always right to do the right thing

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.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Always do what you are afraid to do.