The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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