Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Passions are the gales of life.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

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

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

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

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

Begin with the end in mind.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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

Everybody has a purpose.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

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.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.