Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

I always have to be writing.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

What one has to do usually can be done.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

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

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

An unused life is an early death.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

I teach children to be winners.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.