Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

Hope is a waking dream.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

What is once well done is done forever.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

Find people who will make you better.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Never confuse motion with action.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

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.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

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.