God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

As you think, so shall you become.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Fun is good.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

Peace begins with a smile.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

Never find fault with the absent.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

Enemies are so stimulating.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

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

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.