“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'”

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life — think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Without accumulating little steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without gathering little streams, one cannot form a river or a sea.

No man is good by chance. Virtue is something which must be learned.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.