Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

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.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

I am the captain of my soul.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Be yourself, let you come through.