Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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.

All thinking men are atheists.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

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

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.