March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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

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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

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.

Desire is the essence of a man.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O’Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.