In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

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.

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

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

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

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

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

All wealth is the product of labor.

The time is always right to do the right thing

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.