I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

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.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

What you are comes to you.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

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.

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.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

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

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

It’s easy to forget who you are.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

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