Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.