If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.

One reason I don’t want to play in England again is because we don’t have any personalities.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Choose people who lift you up.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

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

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I do believe in self-help.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.