If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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 time is always right to do the right thing
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
