Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

If you have the ability to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and start over, you come out stronger because you learn from whatever mistakes you made.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

Energy begets energy.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

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

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Applause waits on success.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.