Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

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

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.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

You may delay, but time will not.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

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

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.