A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I’m not going to stop having problems.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

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.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that’s fine. But even if you don’t quote-unquote make it, you’re fine if you’ve given it your whole heart and soul.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

The only shame is to have none.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.