If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Character is destiny.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‚I release the need for this in my life‘.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Of course, I do everything for money.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

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

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.