I said, 'You missed practice yesterday didn't you?' The player replied, 'No coach, not a bit.'

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

People pull on a smile as if it were just another accessory. It might as well be a tie than a smile.

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

Hope is not a financial plan.

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!