I will never retire unless I have to.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

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

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

I worked my face off.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Well, you know, I’m the forever optimist.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.