I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

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.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

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

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

I’m the most stubborn person I know.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get – they probably don’t have the mission in their souls.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

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?

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

You don’t want to pigeonhole yourself.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I never hold a grudge.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.