In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

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

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I always make my dreams into goals.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.