I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don’t require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I’ll take a powernap during the day.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

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

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I didn’t work hard to sit down and not work.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

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.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.