My rule is to break one sweat a day.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The doer alone learneth.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Passions are the gales of life.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Giving up cannot be an option.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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.

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.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

I dwell in possibility.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

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

You can be passionate about anything.