In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Find people who will make you better.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

Success is not a stop sign.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Never complain. Never explain.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

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?

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

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

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

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

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