Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

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

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

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.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

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

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.