If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

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

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Even the best and biggest teams in the world do not reach finals of tournaments.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

The best way out is always through.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

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.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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.

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.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.