I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

“There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.”

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.”

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“It’s not about time, it’s about choices. How are you spending your choices?”

“Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking—why the hell not?  – Why not you, why not now…”

“Intolerance of your present creates your future.”

“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.”

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

“One man with courage makes a majority.”

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.  For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.”

“You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.”

“Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what.”

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.