In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

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.

Americans never quit.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

‚They‘ are the people that don’t believe in you, that say that you won’t succeed. We stay away from ‚They.‘

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

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

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

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.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.