Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

There’s an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

God’s desire is that we excel.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

The Bible says to ‚fear not,‘ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The only shame is to have none.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

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.

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

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

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

Energy begets energy.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.