Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don’t intend to give in either till all is completed.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

What is once well done is done forever.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

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.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

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.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.