Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
You got to get it while you can.
You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
