Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Know thyself.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.