I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

If I can be a leader, I will.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

A word after a word after a word is power.

I think beating myself up sometimes and knowing I am not happy when I do it makes me work harder to do a good job.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

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.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

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.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

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

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.