As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I’m not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

We don’t make music – it makes us.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

You just don’t wake up one day and decide that you need to write songs.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I only want my work to make people happy.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

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

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

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.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

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

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.