So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

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

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

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%.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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

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

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

You can be passionate about anything.

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

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.