Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

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

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn’t still be a farmer.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It’s not easy, a lot of players even quit.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

I just want to do well with the national team.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Well done is better than well said.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

The only way round is through.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.