Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The best way out is always through.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.