Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

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.‘

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

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.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

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

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

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.‘

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

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.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I’m afraid to fail again.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

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

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.