Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

There’s a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

The self is hateful.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

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

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Hope is a waking dream.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.