Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

Life loves the liver of it.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

I do believe in self-help.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

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

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

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

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.