It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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.

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

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.

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.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what thou wilt.

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

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act ‘rightly’ because we are ‘excellent’, in fact we achieve ‘excellence’ by acting ‘rightly’.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

How excellent is thy name in all the earth.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.