Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I always entertain great hopes.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The only shame is to have none.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

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

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

People want you to fail.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that’s all anybody wants to be. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you’ve been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Only you can control your future.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

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

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

There is always safety in valor.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can’t become athletes. We’re watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Choose people who lift you up.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.