It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

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

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy, I guess.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

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

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

God’s desire is that we excel.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

An unused life is an early death.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

I always have to be writing.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

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.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‚I’m with you kid. Let’s go.‘

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.