Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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

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

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

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

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

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.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

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.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

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

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

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