It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

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

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

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.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

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

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Desire is the very essence of man.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

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?

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Really, you don’t lose until you stop trying.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.