Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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 meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
One man with courage is a majority.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
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.