Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

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

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Nothing will work unless you do.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

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

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evening. Businessmen would achieve better results if they studied human metabolism. No one works well eight hours a day. No one ought to work more than four hours.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Small aim is a crime.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

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.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.

What one has to do usually can be done.

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.

Success has always been a great liar.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.