Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

It’s a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

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

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Never complain. Never explain.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

I think that success is having fun.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.