I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

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

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

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

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Never complain. Never explain.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Our work is never over.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.