Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Everybody has a purpose.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

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

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I am a grafter.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

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.