If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don’t just succumb.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.

Choose people who lift you up.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I’ve always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

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!

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Never mistake motion for action.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

I dwell in possibility.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

What one has to do usually can be done.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

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

If you continue to keep low performers on your team, that are actually dragging the team down; you’re failing the whole team, and eventually, the whole team is going to fail.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.