I never worry about action, but only inaction.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

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.

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

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.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Americans never quit.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Success is not a stop sign.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Well done is better than well said.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

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 explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

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

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.