From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

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

Bring them on.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

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.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’m here. I’m not going anywhere. No matter what the injury – unless it’s completely debilitating – I’m going to be the same player I’ve always been. I’ll figure it out. I’ll make some tweaks, some changes, but I’m still coming.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

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 colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

I worked my face off.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.