Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

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

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

In soloing – as in other activities – it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.

Americans never quit.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Our work is never over.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Success is not a stop sign.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

An unused life is an early death.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Why do you want to get a good workout early in the morning? Well, because it sends more oxygen to your brain; it releases endorphins. It puts you in a state of mind where you can crush things, which is where you want to be.

You can be passionate about anything.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. 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 is never too late to be what you might have been.