Giving up cannot be an option.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

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

We were poor, but we smiled.

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.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Nothing will work unless you do.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

My life is a struggle.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.