Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

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.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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.

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.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

What one has to do usually can be done.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

I can do whatever I want.

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

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Our work is never over.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I’ve grown accustomed to hotels and drastic climate change.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.