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.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
