“To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.”

Slow and steady wins the race.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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

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

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories.