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

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

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.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn’t give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That’s why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

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

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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

Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I worked my face off.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Success is not a stop sign.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Genius is patience.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.