Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.