Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

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

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

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

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.