We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

We are our choices.

There is a force that somehow pushes us to choose the more difficult path whereby we can transcend the mire and muck into which we are so often born. Despite all that resists the process, we do become better human beings.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Are you one of the flock that follows, or Are you one that shall lead the way?

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Faced with a mountain, I will not quit. I will keep on striving until I climb over it, find a path through it, tunnel under it, or simply stay and turn it into a gold mine.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.