For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

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

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

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.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

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

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

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

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

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.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There is no substitute for victory.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.