It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

You are victors, not victims!

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‚Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.‘

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort – I think it keeps you going.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing – continue to rock it – because obviously, God wants you here.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

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

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Small aim is a crime.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

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

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.