I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Malcolm X was the first political person in this country that I really identified with. If he had lived and not been purged, I probably would have joined the Muslims.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

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.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

You are victors, not victims!

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

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.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.