If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and read more

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Big results require big ambitions.

Big results require big ambitions.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because read more

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make read more

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something
to be enthusiastic about.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the
anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, read more

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the
anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.