Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

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

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

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

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The best way out is always through.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.