Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I’m not interested in. So, as far as I’m concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don’t know. When I know, I don’t care because I knew how it was.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Pessimism never won any battle.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.