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.

The best way out is always through.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

When I give, I give myself.

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

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

There is always room at the top.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

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