The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Never complain and never explain.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.