Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

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.

Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.

Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom

Don't get too much of an ego, but you're kind of my everything

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind.