A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

God’s desire is that we excel.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Only you can control your future.

The best way out is always through.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

When asked, ‚How do you write?‘ I invariably answer, ‚one word at a time.‘

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.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

You may delay, but time will not.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.