The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest HemingwayI think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.
Joel OsteenI had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
Elon MuskFreedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.
Jocko WillinkHope is a waking dream.
AristotleFor the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve JobsI always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
J. ColeAction may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William JamesAmbition should be made of sterner stuff.
William ShakespeareWith 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.
Nikola TeslaI’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
J. K. RowlingIf you deserve it, go get it.
Conor McGregorIt is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel KantTeachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Joyce MeyerIt is always your next move.
Napoleon HillBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleIt is natural to want to have a future.
Alice WalkerOf course, I do everything for money.
Christopher HitchensThe greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John RuskinI’m not very ambitious at all.
Amy WinehousePlayers now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.
George BestTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda MeirBaseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
Bob UeckerSomeone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren BuffettNothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMany are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich NietzscheA book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaCommit yourself to a mighty purpose.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William JamesI was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.
Richard P. FeynmanDon’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.
Jordan PetersonTake things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce LeeThe dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
John C. MaxwellThe harder I work, the luckier I become.
Terry PratchettYou have to be smart. The easy days are over.
Robert KiyosakiWords are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
Joyce MeyerDesperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
Jim CarreyFailed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
John C. MaxwellHe only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che GuevaraI never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
BuddhaHow many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert HubbardEven the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!
Russell M. NelsonMy 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.‘
Stephen CoveyTake a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. RooseveltI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas CarlyleThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.
James BaldwinIf they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad AliWhat the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon HillSpeak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore RooseveltI only want my work to make people happy.
Jackie ChanFailure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Joe BidenI think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.
Beyonce KnowlesHe that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin FranklinOnce I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
Edmund HillaryIf I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.
Margaret AtwoodTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George OrwellIt’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
J. R. R. Tolkien