Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I knew I wasn’t going to be a rocket scientist – let’s not be fools – but I wasn’t going to be a bum.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Competition is a sin.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Life is a song to me.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

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

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

A useless life is an early death.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Act, and God will act.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

I am a grafter.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Time stays, we go.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.