Americans never quit.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Players 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.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

By indignities men come to dignities.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

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.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

To lead people walk behind them.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We’ll adapt, we’ll train, we’ll advise, we’ll mentor, and we’ll fight, and we’ll fight well.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

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.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

It doesn’t matter who you are – if you dream big and if you work really hard, you can achieve unimaginable results, and that’s really good for the nation.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

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.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

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

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.