It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

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

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I’ve been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn’t feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn’t feel like I was getting anywhere.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I’m afraid to fail again.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

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.‘

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

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

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I always make my dreams into goals.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

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

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

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

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.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.