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.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

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

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

An unused life is an early death.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

There is no substitute for victory.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Applause waits on success.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.