We grow great by dreams.
Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot have, but perseverance all can have.
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.
You never fail until you stop trying.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.
If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
If everything’s under control, you’re going too slow.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
That’s how we do it… we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.
Never put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word ‘pessimist’ was not in our vocabulary at that time. It’s a modern ‘invention’ which I believe we should ‘dis-invent.’
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
