Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.