If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

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

I like a man who grins when he fights.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Man is not made for defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Never regret what you don’t write.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Never, never, never give up.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

What keeps me going is goals.

Americans never quit.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

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

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.