I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Everybody has a purpose.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

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

Energy begets energy.

I don’t like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I’d like to see somebody who’s going in the office. In fact, I’d like to not see them because that way you’d be sure that they’d be working.

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

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

Opportunity makes a thief.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Better never than late.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

Never regret what you don’t write.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

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

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Big results require big ambitions.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.