The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Of course awards matter.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

We based the look on rock ‚n roll right from the beginning.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

A lot of people don’t realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it’s going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we’ve made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That’s why we did it.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Where love is, there God is also.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

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

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.