If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

Well done is better than well said.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Of course awards matter.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Pessimism never won any battle.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

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.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.