It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Well begun is half done.

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Big results require big ambitions.

We named the book ‚Extreme Ownership‘ because we really found that when we looked at not only at leaders but at teams that were the most successful, we found that the ones that had this attitude of extreme ownership were the ones that did the best, and it’s definitely an attitude that I had.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I was an overnight sensation.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

No pressure, no diamonds.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.