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

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.

I am the captain of my soul.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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...

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

There is always room at the top.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.