Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

To lead people walk behind them.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

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?

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

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.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

I’ve had all six of my books reach the New York Times bestseller list, which is especially rewarding seeing as I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write. It just goes to show you that we learn from our mistakes.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

By indignities men come to dignities.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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.

It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

No pressure, no diamonds.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

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.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.