In the same way I have always regarded boxing as a first-class sport to encourage in the Young Men's Christian Association.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

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

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful and all things are possible.

Who struggles more than those who strive to overcome themselves?

This ought to be our endeavor: to conquer ourselves and daily to grow stronger against ourselves, and to grow in holiness.

Two things especially lead to great improvement: the will to drag yourself from the things that will naturally harm you and the desire to pursue the good things that you need the most. You should also watch out for those things that irritate you in other people; when you see them in yourself, get rid of them. Turn everything to your advantage.

Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles

My mind is steadfastly fixed, and it is grounded in Christ."(2) If thus it were with me, the fear of man should not so easily tempt me, nor the arrows of words move me.