Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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

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

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

Make today worth remembering.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.