My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

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

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I’ll never make it, it will never happen, because they’re never going to hear me ‚cause they’re screaming all the time.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

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.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Well begun is half done.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I like to work and am a focused person.