He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

God’s desire is that we excel.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Learn to think continentally.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

I give opinions, not advice.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.