Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Never complain. Never explain.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

I’m not the most patient of people.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

I never got into training to be an All-Ireland boxing champ or to win a belt. At the start, I just got into it to learn how to defend myself when I got into situations.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

In my heart, I’m confident I could make a good president.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn’t done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

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

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

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

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.