Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you.
Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.
Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.
A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles.
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.
Learn from the ocean; when it rises, it carries more than itself along with it.
Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.
A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
When love invades your life, it captures your heart, imprisons your mind, and frees your soul.
When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.
It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.
Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.
The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm,the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.
If size really mattered, the whale, not the shark, would rule the waters.