Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

I will never retire unless I have to.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

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.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

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

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.