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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

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

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

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

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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.