I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you’re really tired. It’s my relaxing time.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

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.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Even 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!

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.