Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

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

Talent without working hard is nothing.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

I teach children to be winners.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Well begun is half done.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

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.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.