Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Freedom and independence form my character.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.