Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was ‚Crime and Punishment‘. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days… I said, ‚If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.‘

Playing basketball all my life, I’ve collected a lot of different basketball shoes. It’s pretty much all I wear.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

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

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

People want to feel hopeful.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The only shame is to have none.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.