Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
The best way out is always through.
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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