A man who never fell down is one who never lived.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

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

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

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.