Our work is never over.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

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.

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

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

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

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Aim for the highest.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

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

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

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.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

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.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

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

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

We work to become, not to acquire.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

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

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.