I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I’m about being the best.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Example is leadership.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I have to write because if I don’t get something down then after a while I feel it’s going to bang the side of my head off.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

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

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.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

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.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.