If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

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.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

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.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

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

Never regret what you don’t write.

Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

You fail only if you stop writing.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Success is not a stop sign.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Dream and you shall become.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.