With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

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

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Time is the least thing we have of.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

Action expresses priorities.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

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

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I can have people around a lot more because I’m not always chasing them away so I can work on my novel. My non-novel, I mean.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.