Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Computers make me totally blank out.

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.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

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

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Competition is a sin.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Friends are thieves of time.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.