Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

I’m chasing perfection.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

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.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

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

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.