Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

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

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

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.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

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

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

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

It is natural to want to have a future.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

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

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Never complain. Never explain.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.