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.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
All wealth is the product of labor.
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.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.