Small aim is a crime.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

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

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

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

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Americans never quit.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Only you can control your future.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I never expected to be anybody important.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Thinking is a wonderful tool if it’s applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you’re dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

As you think, so shall you become.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

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.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.