If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

If you ever see young artists, and they’re not sounding good, they sound good. They’re good singers. They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t sound good. It’s their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he’s or she’s screwing up or not hitting those notes, it’s not because she can’t hit it or she can’t sing; he or she is scared.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Never mistake motion for action.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

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

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

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

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

People want you to fail.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Desire is the essence of a man.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Justice is truth in action.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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

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

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

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

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