If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

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

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

How long should you try? Until.