I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

People want you to fail.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I definitely wasn’t anything special when I first started but I think I adapted quite quickly into racing and it became a bit better slowly. All of cadets, the first four years of karting, I only won one proper race, one! Which was the British Open Championship at PFI and I started 21st and I won.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I’ll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you’re not on time.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

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

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.