How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

I will not be triumphed over.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

In two decades I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

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.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won’t make a company successful.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.