If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Life must be lived as play.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Act, and God will act.