If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Stand a little less between me and the sun.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

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

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

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.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

I focus on my own job.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

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

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.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘