Pessimism never won any battle.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Only you can control your future.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

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

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

To excel at the highest level – or any level, really – you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I have goals.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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.

I thought I couldn’t make a difference because I was too small.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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

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

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Choose people who lift you up.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.