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You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.

Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.

Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

I'd rather fail at something important than succeed at something trivial.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.