Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

If only we try to live righteously, we shall fare well, even though we are bound to encounter genuine sadness and real disappointments and shall probably commit real mistakes and do things that are wrong, but it is certainly better to be ardent in spirit, even though one makes more mistakes, than narrow-minded and overly-cautious.