Rocky Balboa

Excellence is attained when you care more than others think is wise; risk more than others think is safe; dream more than others think is practical; expect more than others think is possible.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Many people who want to be great aren’t willing to do the work to make it possible!

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Happiness is the ability to move forward knowing the future will be better than the past.

Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can’t make the right sort of settlement, so I’m aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

People don’t buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.